@StanFirewings @elonmusk Coordinated media attacks against encryption & tech in the EU often precede dystopian laws or crazy actions (like my arrest in France in 2024). This is their entire purpose: create an imaginary problem to justify attacks on our freedoms.

🤥 WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will 🤝

WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will 🤝

@TimurNegru The prices of such properties (adjusted for inflation) will continue to decrease.

@Proton_Pass This is simply false. Telegram owns its servers, supports E2EE group video calls, allows sign-ups without a phone number, discloses only IPs & phone numbers as metadata, and is not US-based. We introduced E2EE in Secret Chats before these other…

That’s why Telegram Secret Chats never show message content in push notifications. Since 2013, Secret Chats have remained the most secure usable way to communicate. US gov funded Signal has too many questionable dependencies on other US companies (AWS, MS…

🚨 Another proof that Telegram’s Secret Chats are the most secure way to communicate. The FBI got access to deleted messages in US gov-funded app Signal just by checking the notifications data. On Telegram, Secret Chats never show message content in push notifications…

@Proton_Pass You can’t optimize for both usability and security — you’ll end up with ugly compromises, like WhatsApp leaking 95% of messages via unencrypted backups or Signal exposing messages through push notifications. Hence, you need two types of chats:…

@wavemsgs @liznilend That’s exactly why your app will never be truly popular: you’re providing one small feature of Telegram as a your entire app, wrongly assuming that removing the rest of the functionality somehow makes your app superior. Getting critical…

@iHateApplee This chart has several mistakes, acknowledged by its creator. I assume an updated version is on the way.

🔐 We’ve upgraded Telegram’s anti-censorship protocol. Users in Russia are advised to update their apps to stay connected despite the ban.

⚠️ Some other advice: stock up on several VPNs/proxies in advance, help your friends and family do the same, and avoid…

We’ve upgraded Telegram’s anti-censorship protocol. Users in Russia are advised to update their apps to stay connected. Thanks to the Russian people’s Digital Resistance, Telegram usage there remained stable over the past week despite the full ban.

@chamath I can’t agree more.

WhatsApp’s “E2E encryption by default” claim is a giant consumer fraud: ~95% of private messages on WhatsApp end up in plain-text backups on Apple/Google servers — not E2E-encrypted. Backup encryption is optional, and few people enable it — let alone use…

@Rus_Khairullin I welcome the competition — the world needs secure messaging apps. My problem with apps like WhatsApp is that they make bold claims (like “E2E encrypted by default”) that turn out to be false.

Apple and Google disclose backed-up WhatsApp messages to third parties thousands of times per year. Meanwhile, Telegram hasn’t disclosed a single byte of users’ messages in its entire 12+ year history.

@xdrewmiko Thanks for the trust — your nudes are safe with us 🔒

⚠️ WhatsApp’s “End-to-end encryption by default” claim is a giant consumer fraud.

📖 ~95% of private messages on WhatsApp end up in plain-text backups on Apple/Google servers — not E2E-encrypted. Backup encryption is optional, and few people enable it —…

@itsKalta True, WhatsApp’s encryption claims are unverifiable since it’s closed source. Meta spends billions on marketing & PR every year, so most “independent media” and “industry experts” conveniently look the other way.

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