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Post by StavrosK » Fri, May 29, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

tryptophan wrote: post #58

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> It has many features other platforms lack, is reasonably privacy-friendly Telegram still has no E2E encryption by default and their official desktop client dont have it either. So it's worth nothing if no one use it. It's not that I have much trust into proprietary fb code, but there are certainly better apps privacy-wise out there.

Email has no E2E and people still use it all the time, for much more sensitive things than get sent over whatsapp and such.

Post by fullstop » Fri, May 29, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #72

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Eh? It's encrypted by default. Not E2E, though, although that is an option which you can choose to use.

That's a bit disingenuous. Everything is encrypted these days, there's virtually nothing that doesn't use TLS. Therefore, when someone says "encrypted", it's a good bet they mean E2E.

Post by StavrosK » Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

fullstop wrote: post #73

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That's a bit disingenuous. Everything is encrypted these days, there's virtually nothing that doesn't use TLS. Therefore, when someone says "encrypted", it's a good bet they mean E2E.

Telegram non-E2E is more than just TLS, though.

Post by dylz » Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:18 PM UTC

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You can easily integrate Zigbee devices. The Aqara or Xiaomi door/window sensors for example are cheap and pretty nice.

Thanks! I didn't know Xiaomi made such sensors too. They are definitely one of the brands that I recognize.

Post by solarkraft » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

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> there are certainly better apps privacy-wise out there With significantly worse UX. > still has no E2E encryption by default This doesn't make it not reasonably secure in my mind. While the TG people will be able to access your messages, they can also process them, making stuff like large groups even possible (imagine the distribution hell otherwise). I do tend to think that there's not much of a down side to E2E f…

> This doesn't make it not reasonably secure in my mind. While the TG people will be able to access your messages, they can also process them, making stuff like large groups even possible (imagine the distribution hell otherwise). So your standard for “reasonably secure” communications is Facebook Messenger?