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Hi :) I know that Telegram is not save and not a good messenger if you are a privacy-geek. Sadly some parts of my family still think so. I brougth up the arguments, that they are cooperating with Russia, that they or closed-source on the server-side and that e2ee is not on by default and only available for 1-on-1 chats.

My question now is, if you gals and guys might have some other arguments or sources I could use.

I don't want to convince anyone to switch away from Telegram (because I am no missionary :D) I just want people to understand the risks of using Telegram.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

People always going on about signal, but it still requires phone number, but never hear talk of threema, threema is reasonably solid choice for privacy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

hm I dont really agree on this. it is a swiss service (i think) but it is all closed source so that is a red-flag for me (if talking about privacy or transparency).

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

Yeah good point, the closed source def is not ideal. Hmm back to signal as best option??

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

well I'd say signal is one of the best options as there are many others. Regarding the phonenumber: as far as I know, it is stored hashed so signal does not really know your phonenumber. so this would not concern me.

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