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.
Telegram The messaging platform and the positions its founder has taken about running it.
At the same time, if you were really paranoid, you think, I don't want to be screenshotted, I don't want to have any leaks, I don't even trust Telegram, I only trust code. Secret Chats are the best option. I believe is the most secure means of communication today.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
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.
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