• randompepsi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Telegram probably doesn’t have E2E so that people can have always active desktop sessions

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      1 year ago

      I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "always active desktop sessions" but for any definition I could imagine it is possible to do that while having e2ee. Many e2ee messengers have multi-device support nowadays.

      Telegram doesn't need to have e2ee because they've pulled some trick of becoming widely perceived as being privacy friendly despite not actually offering any e2ee in most cases, and offering only some 🤡-protocol in the few cases where they do.

      Another reason for them not to implement e2ee is that they're most likely monetizing their users content data as well as the metadata (and in more ways than just charging some types of police for access to it, which is presumably only a small fraction of their revenue).

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      1 year ago

      E2ee doesn't have to be 2 devices. It can be for any amount of endpoints as long as they have the key to decrypt the data.

      For example my nextcloud instance has e2ee for my phone, computer, and tablet.