It’s Time for Furries to Stop Using Telegram
I have been a begrudging user of Telegram for years simply because that’s what all the other furries use, despite their cryptography being legendarily bad.
When I signed up, I held my nose and expressed my discontent at Telegram by selecting a username that’s a dig at MTProto’s inherent insecurity against chosen ciphertext attacks: IND_CCA3_Insecure.
I wrote about Furries and Telegram before, and included some basic privacy recommendations. As I said there: Telegram is not a private messenger. You shouldn’t think of it as one.
First things first, Signal Protocol, the cryptography behind Signal (also used in WhatsApp and several other messengers) is open source and has been intensively reviewed by cryptographers. When it comes to cryptography, this is pretty much the gold standard. 2/
Signal’s client code is also open source. You can download it right now and examine the code and crypto libraries. Even if you don’t want to do that, many experts have. This doesn’t mean there’s never going to be a bug: but it means lots of eyes. https://t.co/w5AxQoQeRF
