Has anyone considered or used Keybase? On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.com> wrote:
> > > On 1/8/21 19:26, Drew Weaver wrote: > > > This might be anecdotal but there is a ton of debate about whether or > not Telegram is encrypted. > > > > This is not anecdotal though, on Wednesday night I saw an interview with > a security expert on CNBC and he indicated that they knew that the riots in > DC were going to happen because they had been "monitoring the extremists > Telegram groups". What they didn't say was whether or not they were simply > members of those groups, or monitoring from a "networking/technology" > sense. I'm not sure if Signal does groups the same way that Telegram does > but that one is widely believed to be much better than Telegram as far as > privacy and security. > > > > Telegram is a tremendously useful (and free service) for connecting to > Elastalert for all manner of notifications, but we have since moved to > Teams for that just because we can't really be sure what is going on under > the hood with Telegram. > > > > Just some things that I have observed, not trying to start a holy war. > > My rudimentary understanding of Telegram is that group messages are > client-server, which is why new members can read old posts when they > join a group. > > Signal, on the other hand, is p2p for members within the group. No > messages are ever sent to their cloud. > > Mark. >
