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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Telegram doesn’t use encryption. Everything is in clear text. Nobody needs a back door to get access. Not even governments. It’s all just out in the open

This isn't even true, Telegram isn't IRC. Like any modern application, uses SSL (encapsulated in MTProto) to protect connections. Govts will only have access if they manage to compromise those certificates, like your bank's website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Or if they copy the data from the servers, as it isn't e2e, the data is unencrypted on the server (or usually encrypted on the server with keys accesible by people working there) as far as I know.