Founder of Signal: Even Facebook is safer than Telegram

Pavel Durov's messenger has become a popular alternative to WhtsApp and Viber due to its simplicity and security. But, the founder is also a popular secure messenger Signal Moxie Marlinspike believes that such a reputation of the messenger is too exaggerated. 

Marlinspike said that messages sent via Telegram are stored on the company's servers in plain text without any encryption to protect data. 

The head of Signal noted that in this respect, even Messenger and WhatsApp from Meta (formerly Facebook) provide privacy better than Telegram. Both of these programs offer at least end-to-end encryption for all text messages sent through their platforms.

In turn, Telegram stores all data in the cloud in a completely open format: texts, shared multimedia data, contacts. Even Facebook Messenger offers a minimum standard end-to-end encryption protocol for data stored on servers. In the case of Telegram, everyone who has access to its services also has access to the entire database of unprotected messenger users.

The Winfuture resource, which was the first to report this, claims that Telegram is essentially an open window on servers that store the entire history of everything that happened on the platform, which is visible to the private user as well as to server operators. If, for example, a hacker decides to follow the user's personal messages in Telegram, he will be able to do so without much effort. However, it should be noted that Telegram has secret chats where maximum information encryption is used. 

How Durov reacted to these statements is still unknown. 

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