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>>54523606
I was in this Group.
Cp everywhere and no tech related conversations..
>>54523981
There was no cp.
I use telegram and like it but I won't "shill" it until they make the serverside free.
How did you get your friends to go telegram?
>>54524160
Custom cloud servers are expected in the future.
>>54524186
I showed them the stickers, desktop clients and self deleting images while telling them about encryption.
It was easier to get them to use signal though.
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>>54524235
Nice, now it only needs encrypted group chats and a not so weird GNU/Linux client (ome that is pushed upstream and doesn't update itself) and it's literally perfect.
>>54525381
Telegram Desktop updates itself nicely
>>54525414
That's what I don't like about it. I use a package manager for a reason.
>>54525449
im a dumb nigger who runs updates twice a year
>>54524056
other guy
no but lolis still made everybody leave. completely unnecessary shit and low quality conversations. almost like the real /g/
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Firstly: the server is closed-source.
Secondly: The protocol (MTProto "secret" chats) is: "bizarre; nonsensical; ugly; ludicrous". Matthew Green went on to describe the design as "like someone who had never seen cake but heard it described tried to bake one. With thumbtacks and iron filings". It is a long way from what a good cryptographic protocol should look like. And that's when it even uses it: most of Telegram is cleartext garbage.
Please stop shilling this borderline snake-oil. Fucking WhatsApp has much better encryption, for God's sake. Not that I'd really recommend that because it's closed-source too, but it's still better than this (and more people are using it even though they don't give a shit about security).
Do something useful instead, Durov: donate a million to the Tor Project, or EFF, OpenBSD - anyone who will do something actually good for internet security with it. Trevor Perrin could use it for further development of Noise. Poul-Henning Kamp could use it for his decent ntp implementation. djb could buy coffee.
