Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been arrested in France on charges of enabling illegal transactions, failure to provide documents to authorities, complicity in possessing child sexual abuse material and in distributing CSAM, complicity in the distribution of drugs, complicity in organized fraud and money laundering.
This has naturally created controversy, with many calling it politically motivated, an attack on free speech, and oddly enough, an attack on encrypted messaging. I’m not going to wade into anything about political hit jobs or free speech, but I do have to mention one thing—the encryption argument isn’t really valid because Telegram isn’t always encrypted.
People didn’t realize that every Telegram group message is sent in plain text through a Telegram server and much of it is saved. The French government will have plenty of evidence sitting there for them to look at.
The only way to use encryption with Telegram is to have a one-on-one messaging session with someone and enable the “Secret Chat” setting. If you don’t do that, it’s not encrypted.
It’s good that people are realizing that their group chats are wide open. It also brings up a couple of other things to consider: do you really care about encrypted messaging, and if you do, which apps are better at it than Telegram?
The first question is something only you can answer, but I can give you my answer: yes, I care. I’m not worried if someone knows I texted my wife to remind her to bring home a bottle of orange juice when she’s out at the store or that anyone sees me send my grandkids a goofy picture of Snoopy on a jet ski. I just don’t want them to be able to know it unless I tell them.
You’re probably the same, and most of what you send over a messaging…
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