WhatsApp (or its parent company Meta) is on the offensive – a few months ago Mark Zuckerberg claimed “WhatsApp is far more secure than iMessage”, but now another messaging app, Telegram, is on the offensive. , being called by Will Cathcart, Head of WhatsApp. in meta.
Cathcart cited Wired’s article and his own criticism of Telegram’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) implementation. According to Cathcart, it has not been independently verified and has other flaws. For example, it is not enabled by default and E2EE cannot be used in group chats (according to Telegram itself, it causes problems when backing up data). .
Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default and does not offer e2ee for groups. From the article: “Telegram has the ability to share almost any sensitive information requested by the government”
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) February 10, 2023
The Telegram team has its own criticism of WhatsApp. For example, the option to backup chats to Google Drive effectively negates encryption, as backups are unencrypted and government agencies can petition Google for data instead of WhatsApp.
Of course, both parties have an interest in arguing that their services are superior to the other.you can read cascarto twitter thread For more information on his criticism of Telegram. His Wired article is also worth reading. It details several instances in which Russian officials appeared to have access to his secret Telegram chats. Additionally, a flaw in Telegram’s location API could have provided the user’s location within a radius of up to 3 km/2 miles. Telegram has reworked their API, but may not have actually fixed the issue.
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