Telegram - cross platform, secure chat

[Midas]

Some security recommendations for Telegram use from the very EFF:

If you do not have secret chat turned on, your chat communications can be exposed or seen just like channels and groups. If you do turn on secret chat, then Telegram cannot see the contents of your communication, but they still have access to metadata about the communications, including who you talked to and when you talked to them. It may be possible to draw very specific conclusions about what you are doing based only on the metadata about your conversation.

@ www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reduction-users-russia-and-ukraine

[rbon]

Topic update:
Telegram Desktop rel. 3.6.0 has been released on March 11, 2022
• Telegram Desktop web site: https://desktop.telegram.org/
• Telegram Desktop all platforms (press button at the end of the page): https://desktop.telegram.org/
• Direct download portable 32 bit: https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win_portable
• Direct download portable 64 bit: https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win64_portable
• Changelog (Recent News): https://telegram.org/blog/downloads-att ... -streaming

For portable version stealth, wait for PortableApps build.

[webfork]

If you do not have secret chat turned on, your chat communications can be exposed or seen just like channels and groups. If you do turn on secret chat, then Telegram cannot see the contents of your communication, but they still have access to metadata about the communications, including who you talked to and when you talked to them. It may be possible to draw very specific conclusions about what you are doing based only on the metadata about your conversation.

My friends that were using Telegram have mostly moved on to other options but still good to know. Thanks for that.

[Midas]

For those on Android, I'm getting very positive feedback for Briar (https://briarproject.org/).

But bearing in mind most people I know still stick to WhatsApp and that a messaging app is only as good as the number of your acquaintances that use it... plus, those 2GB file transfer allocation are difficult to beat for sure.

[Midas]

Topic update: Telegram Desktop is currently v4.15.2 (available changelog up to v4.11.6 at https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog).



Native Telegram Desktop Portable(?) downloads for Windows:

https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win64_portable
https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win_portable

Telegram Desktop source code is on Github under GPL3: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Lastly, it may now be possible to use Telegram without providing your phone number -- for details, see:

3 Ways to Sign Up for Telegram Without Phone Number or Sim
https://techpp.com/2024/01/01/sign-up-for-telegram-without-phone-number-or-sim/

BTW, for my historical perspective on Signal vs Telegram, see viewtopic.php?p=104865#p104865.

[Llewelyn]

It's stealth, but with every update you have to delete couple of registry keys that creates