Telegram is a lot of things, but it's not an encryption-first messaging service.
A view of the Telegram logo displayed on a mobile phone and a digital screen on the background in Ankara, Turkiye on August 25, 2024.co-founder of Telegram, over the weekend on charges related to the spread of illicit material on the platform. As news spread of Durov’s arrest, outlets and pundits repeated a description of Telegram that isn’t true: they called it an encrypted messaging app.
With Telegram, all bets are off. Telegram is mostly about big group chats and channels where people share information with their fans. DMs are not, by default, end-to-end encrypted. Users can enable what Telegram calls “secret chats” but must do so forin his blog on the subject, it’s also a pain in the ass to activate. “The button that activates Telegram’s encryption feature is not visible from the main conversation pane, or from the home screen.
So why does the world seem to think of Telegram as an encrypted app? Durov constantly says that it is and attacks the encryption of other platforms. In a long post on his Telegram channel in May, Durov accused the U.S. government of having a hand in the creation of Signals’ encryption systems.
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