Hi :) I know that Telegram is not save and not a good messenger if you are a privacy-geek. Sadly some parts of my family still think so. I brougth up the arguments, that they are cooperating with Russia, that they or closed-source on the server-side and that e2ee is not on by default and only available for 1-on-1 chats.
My question now is, if you gals and guys might have some other arguments or sources I could use.
I don’t want to convince anyone to switch away from Telegram (because I am no missionary :D) I just want people to understand the risks of using Telegram.
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The messages in the desktop client aren’t encrypted. However, someone would need access to your machine to get them
Also, if the data were encrypted, the encryption key would have been on the Computer anyway, but yes it could have been better protected.
Technically they could require a password. However, people would forget it