KDE-Soc Telegram group

[Nicolás Alvarez]

> El 11 mar 2016, a las 06:01, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
>> On Friday 11 March 2016 09:44:01 Alexander Semke wrote:
>> Nicolás, Valorie, thank you for your answers. 
>> 
>>> As far as I know there is nothing open about Slack.
>>> 
>>> The Telegram protocol is public, every official Telegram client is free
>>> software, there are no features limited to paying users...
>>> [...]
>> If I understand it correctly, there is nothing open about the server 
>> implemenation and infrastructure. So, I'm not sure how much the openness on 
>> the client side help here.
>> 
>> I also found this older article 
>> http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/
>> which I found quite interesting, especially the longer discussion in the 
>> comments between the author of the article and some guy from Telegram.
> 
> Thats exactly what I wanted to point out. Like Schneier's Law:
> 
> "any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't
> think of how to break it."
> 
> So be careful about home-made security encryption in software like
> Telegram. It does not mean that it is secure...

We'll use public Telegram groups, not one-to-one end-to-end-encrypted secret chats, so how is that relevant? What threat is it potentially not secure against?

-- 
Nicolás