WhatsApp head Will Cathcart accused Telegram of lacking an adequate level of security for users and urged everyone to abandon Pavel Durov’s envoy. on this he Wrote on your Twitter page.
“Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default and does not offer E2EE (end-to-end encryption) for groups,” Cathcart said.
With these words, he wanted to show WhatsApp’s superiority over Pavel Durov’s messenger, which, unlike the American messenger, does not use end-to-end encryption for regular chats and groups.
He also cited a Wired article that claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in Telegram that allowed even closed chats to be read.
Cathcart acknowledged that his criticism might seem selfish, but he did not encourage everyone to switch to WhatsApp.
“There are many other great messengers with end-to-end encryption. If you’re not going to use WhatsApp, use one of them, but don’t use Telegram,” Cathcart said.
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