Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Pavel Durov said
privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.
You need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Telegram's Secret Chats are the most secure means of communication today.
Durov sets the standard himself: an encryption claim can only be verified with open source and reproducible builds, which he says WhatsApp has never offered. He also says Telegram Secret Chats are the most secure means of communication today, which is a claim of exactly the kind his own standard says a reader cannot take on trust. The test is his; applying it to his own product is the tension.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.