• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Telegram, including secret chats, is not blocked because Russian elites happen to use that, too.

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        1 month ago

        I could put on my tinfoil hat and say if signal is blocked but telegram isn’t, maybe that means that telegram isn’t as secret as they make it out to be.

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            1 month ago

            Can it be proven that that encryption is what’s used in practice?

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            1 month ago

            They don’t have reproducible builds afaik (unlike Signal). You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

            Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways? All default chats and group chats are unencrypted.

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              1 month ago

              You can have a completely different code running on your phone than on GitHub.

              Just use the F-Droid version if there is any doubt.

              Besides, who is using Secret Chat anyways?

              Probably Russians who used Signal before.

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                1 month ago

                The F-droid version is also not reproducible. The binary you install has a different hash than the one you build from the GitHub.