Telegram & Signal

[Xantan]

As WhatsApp just announced last week that they are sharing data with Facebook, a global outrage followed, prompting a lot of users to flock to other messaging apps such as Telegram & Signal last week. Telegram just broke 500 million users, Signal has experienced almost 9 million downloads in the space of a week.

What are Orgahs thoughts on this? Telegram? Signal? Both?

Or staying in WhatsApp?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/whatsapp-vs-signal-vs-telegram-vs-facebook-what-data-do-they-have-about-you/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarification

[Furunculus]

Element:Matrix

[Xantan]

https://www.businessinsider.com/is-telegram-secure


Unlike its competitor Signal, Telegram doesn't by default apply end-to-end encryption to messages, which prevents any message intercepted by a third party from being interpretable.

However, you can opt to have end-to-end encryption by using Telegram's "secret chat" option.

Despite the fact that end-to-end encryption isn't standard, Telegram says its two-chat system is the most secure solution for their widely-used app. It toggles between Cloud and Secret chats to protect all kinds of users, relying on a standard encrypted cloud storage system based on server-client encryption — called MTProto encryption.