I finally had to pick between Signal and Telegram for a sensitive chat

A friend in Turkey needed to talk about a protest safely, so I had to choose which app they'd actually use without getting flagged. I picked Signal because it's open source, but now they're complaining the disappearing messages are too aggressive. Has anyone else dealt with someone ditching encryption because it's 'too paranoid'?

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tessa_kelly4mo ago

Actually, Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted by default, only in secret chats.

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joseph_coleman4mo ago

30 million people use Telegram daily and still most folks don't know secret chats are the only ones with E2E. @tessa_kelly, I get what you're saying but a lot of people rely on their regular chats for sensitive stuff without realizing it. Makes you wonder how many messages out there are exposed, right?

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hannah_williams4mo ago

Yeah, it's kind of alarming honestly.

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