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> instantly reveals your real identity to any snoop, snitch or government mole.

Yeah, WA isn't anonymous. The problem is with Telegram storing all your private messages on their cloud, by hacking the server, just knowing your username the state level attacker learns everything about you, metadata, and content, and because there's no forward secrecy, it will date back basically forever unless you're constantly deleting logs, and even then you can only hope Telegram also erases their backup tapes.

>If you're American (or living in an American province) and you want to talk about how to free yourself of Washington, you use Telegram

That's just stupid, why would you want less secure architecture to criticize Americans? NSA can trivially hack Telegram servers to see your criticism if they want. You want E2EE for your dissident group no matter what, thus Signal will always remain a better choice.



By default, Telegram does store all your messages on their server, whose encryption cannot be trusted.

By default, WhatsApp uploads all your messages to Google Cloud in clear.




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