I have been using Telegram for years, but these news make me thinking. Is it time to change to use Signal instead? The only thing that has kept me on Telegram so far is the ability to have it on multible devices. Signal doesnât have this feature.
If you feel using a Signal fork is safe, then thereâs Molly, which I use to let me use Signal across 2 android smartphones.
Molly can scan QR from your main device and appear as a âlinked deviceâ on your account.
I have a Telegram account too, but I never use it for anything remotely important. I never trusted it, especially because its not E2EE by default, except âsecret chatsâ, which anyways donât sync across devices.
Molly sounds interesting. But if Iâm right, itâs only for android devices. I use iphone and ipad.
Yes, molly is android only. Iâm not aware of any workaround on apple devices unfortunately.
Not related to this topic but interesting blog about Telegramâs history
I have session-Desktop on my desktop, phone, my partners phone, and desktop. Iâve actually thought about dropping both Telegram and Discord cause the only thing I ever had them for was receiving tech support, but over the last couple of years I canât be bothered with them cause feel support for a OS or app should be given some place where if the info is needed again itâs easy to find. Like a forum, GitHub, etcâŠ
you can install stock Signal on both, and pair the install on the iPad to your iPhone. Signal has been supporting multiple devices for ages.
Yes, I know that. I actually meant multiple devices with different operation systems. I have iphone, ipad, android tablet and laptop with EOS where I have Telegram. But probably the most important feature I would miss in other messaging apps is ability to send large files. Sending videos with 100 mb size limit is impossibleâŠ
if I remember correctly, you can link up to 5 devices to an install on your phone, and out of the ones youâve listed only the Android tablet will require Molly for now, because the stock Signal app doesnât support linking an Android device as a secondary one just yet.
not being able to send large files is probably by design, since everything you send and receive via Signal is stored only locally, so itâs a way of making sure people donât run out of storage too quickly.
I use Signal on my smartphone and (currently) 3 PC. Only thing was scanning a qr-code to verify.
I have always been suspicious about Telegram. But Iâm not happy that I was right about it. I donât know if this has been reported on wider media, but this is something people really should know.
I just use telegram for the -Channel
Thatâs the endeavour channel. Itâs got good stuff on there!
Their encryption protocol MTProto was critised by others before but no vulnerabilities found probably because Pavel Durovâs brother Nikolai Durov is a real math genius. Itâs not new.
- https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-whatsapp-settings/
- https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
Matt Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins : Itâs uniquely âweird,â in a way that suggests its inventors donât understand tried-and-true cryptography practices and raises his suspicions that it may yet have undiscovered vulnerabilities. âItâs like if everyone else in the world has agreed that weâre going to use drywall to do the walls in a house, and then youâve got somebody whoâs using toothpaste,â says Green. âEven if the toothpaste works and makes a nice wall, thatâs weird. How do you know theyâre not doing other weird, nonstandard things when they put the electrical wiring into the house? And thatâs what scares me.â
But this FSB link part is new news.