The WhatsApp and Telegram diatribe has been going on for months now. The issues of user privacy and data collection by platforms have made a lot of talk about themselves. For a long time, then, everyone thought that the Telegram App was the safest of all, so much so that it earned thousands of downloads. Now though Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, seems to have found some flaws in the management of the platform’s personal data. Indeed, through his Twitter account he launched a series of stinging comments that would show that Telegram is no more reliable than WhatsApp.
Telegram: Less secure app than WhatsApp for managing user data
Moxie Marlinspike accuses the Telegram App of being less secure than WhatsApp. According to what the founder of Signal reports, all messages sent through the application are stored on the server in their original form, without resorting to encryption that protects personal data. This means that all messages can be accessible to anyone be able to get to the server. A detail already brought to light by the head of Winfuture, who had noticed how the application servers were easy to access.
Apparently, in fact, the servers of the Telegram App store the entire history of a user’s messages making it visible both to the users themselves and to the operators. Indeed, the platform’s end-to-end encryption would follow a security protocol of dubious quality. Or so reports Moxie Marlinspike. From what we know, the founder of Signal would have declared that a messaging app can be considered safe only if a message is read exclusively by the sender and the recipient. And for Telegram it would not be like that.
The platform, for its part, immediately responded to Marlinspike’s criticisms: “Everything stored on the Telegram cloud is securely encrypted. Every message sent on Telegram is encrypted. Secret chats, voice calls and individual video calls are protected by end-to-end encryption. Cloud chats, including groups and channels, use secure client-server encryption “.