Telegram Founder on WhatsApp Hacks: Backdoors Are Camouflaged as Security Flaws

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by bassaf • 6 years ago

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nickik2• 6 years ago

For somebody that makes an app that doesnt even use e2e 99% of the time, he should stfu.

drcross• 6 years ago

What good is e2e encryption if it's backdoored?

jasonvorhe• 6 years ago

What good is his claim about WhatsApp if he has no proof?

nickik2• 6 years ago

First of all he should have some sliver of prove and not just complain about things that are the same on his software.

And if he was serious about it and not just bs marketing he could actually recommend an app that is actually significantly improving on the security.

416chad• 6 years ago

Multiple companies I've worked at have been in the position of their competitors suffering security breaches. In all instances there were communications sent to all staff not to speak externally pointing to the inident for publicity/promotion of our service. While you can't turn a blind eye, it's just not a good look. Besides, tomorrow it could always be you/your company.

Telegram has some positives, but the lack of e2e without secret chats is inexcusable--notnto mention secret chats' notifications are crippled (no option to see sender or message content.) If only Signal had working profile avatars instead of seeing some ancient Google+/Facebook/social media photo that sync'd to their contact list eons ago they didn't even know was there... Small UX things can make all the difference, haha.

derision• 6 years ago

I wonder if this is why there's so many "vulnerabilities" in Intel CPUs?

apfsx• 6 years ago

Within the past 10 years I've lost my sense of even the slightest security. Not as if that security ever existed in the first place, just that I was much less aware of the possibilities. I feel like the vulnerabilities that we've seen on Intel CPU's is just the tip of the iceberg. Maybe within a decade or two we'll see that no Intel CPU was ever safe and high level agencies have literally since the beginning had access to these vulnerabilities.

I mean some of the stuff we've seen is terrifying. Malware that infects the Management Engine of the Intel CPU that survives regardless of OS you install or hardware you change? I'm afraid these aren't even 1% of what is and has been capable since the beginning that we don't know about.

Apofis• 6 years ago

It's just a wide open gate for anyone that knows what they're doing at this point.

BlueTemplar• 6 years ago

IME + Snowden = All your Intels are belong to US

nathanaldensr• 6 years ago

This article reads like an advertisement. There's nothing really new here.

detaro• 6 years ago

Please submit the original source, not an article reporting that some else made a blog post.

Also a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200300

Telegram Founder on WhatsApp Hacks: Backdoors Are Camouflaged as Security Flaws

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