▲ | maqp a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
>telegram is the most user friendly chat out there. Telegram is a walking time bomb with 900 million users' data waiting to be leaked from the servers. >and, deltachat. That must be why I've never heard of anyone using it. >deltachat is the only one that doesn't require a smartphone and a phone number. It leaks the IP-address to the server, which by default (defaults matter) is nine.testrun.org. That server can amass metadata about users conversing, and any government entity that comes knocking can look at TelCo records about to which user the IP-addr was assigned at the time. If you're going to try to address metadata privacy against service provider, you're going to have address it properly, and DeltaChat isn't the one at that point. Neither is Signal. You'll want Cwtch for that. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | nottorp 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> Telegram is a walking time bomb with 900 million users' data waiting to be leaked from the servers. Russia probably has all the Telegram data, considering they officially intervened in the recent Romanian presidential elections taking the side of the local MAGAs. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-founder-says-h... What the article doesn't say is they sent a message in romanian to all romanian telegram users with the above claim, signed Durov. So I don't think their "security" can be trusted. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | em-bee a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
nine.testrun.org is owned by deltachat developers. it is about as trustworthy as, say, matrix.org. the only better alternative would be self hosting. the question is not what is the best, most secure, most private, option, but what has the right balance between easy onboarding, ease of use, security and privacy. and maybe deltachat is not the best possible, but it is pretty good. remember, when security and privacy are to onerous then you don't have security or privacy because people will refuse to use the tool. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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