• TCB13@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Telegram are the ones making a promise. I’m not saying they’ve broken their promise (as evidenced by the arrest).

    The fact that govts go after them kinda validates the promise. Unlike Signal.

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      3 months ago

      It validates that governments can see what’s happening on Telegram, and that makes Telegram a target.

      They can’t go after the likes of Signal because they have very little to go on in the first place. They can’t say definitively what’s happening there as they can’t see any messages. Unlike Telegram.

      It’s not a conspiracy that Signal are compromised, so they’re being ignored. They’re being ignored because there’s nothing to see, so governments might as well spend resources going after the apps where information is visible instead. At least they might get a result. E2EE apps are too difficult.