WhatsApp And Telegram focused exchanges continue in 2023. This time once again Will Cathcart spoke.
First, let’s go back to the past. head of Telegram Pavel Durov, Towards the end of last year, he made a statement that made a lot of noise and said “WhatsApp should be avoided” said. Durov also said:WhatsApp has been on the agenda with many security vulnerabilities for years, and even users’ phones can be hacked through a new vulnerability.” he had declared. “Use any messaging app but don’t approach WhatsApp” said Durov, not trying to highlight Telegram here, He stated that Telegram, with over 700 million users, did not need it. Claiming that the application will never be safe unless a major change is made to the working system of WhatsApp, Pavel also claimed that the application puts its users at risk with backdoors. head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart Last year, Durov made the opposite statement. Speaking on Twitter, Cathcart said, “I wouldn’t use Telegram for anything special” and added: “Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram does not have end-to-end encryption by default and there is no way to turn it on for groups. This means that Telegram has a copy of your messages and it worries me.” Will Cathcart also said: “I don’t believe Pavel made these claims to try to grow his practice. It’s really sad to see Telegram trying to use disinformation as a tactic to amplify.”
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Will Cathcart recently targeted Telegram once again through an article by WIRED took. Cathcart, who made the following statements from Twitter, said that Telegram’s frequently mentioned “Russia” via link “Telegram does not use end-to-end encryption by default, nor does it offer end-to-end encryption for groups.” said. Here’s a quote from WIRED’s report by Cathcart, especially “Telegram has the capacity to share almost any confidential information a government requests.It draws attention to the “. “Telegram lacks the real transparency that most tech companies embrace” said Cathcart, conveying the following on this subject: “In most cases, it’s impossible to tell what’s really going on… it’s unclear whether spyware or Kremlin informants are using it to get information.”
“In addition to not securing people’s messages, Telegram’s mistakes put people at risk” says Cathcart, in addition to “At the start of the war it was possible to detect any user within a 2 mile radius (if location was enabled) via Telegram’s location API.” said. for Telegram “They created another API that seems to allow access to user information for mass surveillance” explained Cathcart, “Authorities may not even need Telegram’s cooperation to monitor users on a large scale. This is because Telegram has explicitly built this capability into its API infrastructure.” coined the phrase. The head of WhatsApp, quoting here, is the independent journalist Andrei Soldatov, who has been investigating Russian security services for more than 20 years.For some reason people still trust Telegram but I really don’t know why.” He also shared his sentence.
“It’s important for journalists and politicians to understand the reality of Telegram. We often see it being praised for working as a “cryptic” app, but they are far from that and I hope people realize this before it’s too late.” said Cathcart, these He states that he does not tell people to use WhatsApp as follows:: “There are many great end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that people can choose from. If you’re not going to use WhatsApp, at least use one of these, but don’t go and use Telegram.”
This is a really important article from @DarrenLoucaides @Wired about Telegram. If you think Telegram is secure, you should read this article and understand the truth – especially before you use it for anything private.
Some really important points: https://t.co/WefbuS11Ov
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) February 10, 2023