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[sakex]

I think that companies like duckduckgo who make a product in the consumer's interest are a bit dubious as long as their product is not open source.

[anaganisk → sakex]

But somehow people trust telegram and thousands of other apps. No its not about open source

[paxys → anaganisk]

FYI - https://telegram.org/apps#source-code. People trust Telegram because their source code has been independently audited by security researchers.

[vin047 → paxys]

On that site, they mention the code/crypto protocol has been independently verified, but I can't seem to find any independent reports, aside from Telegrams own article explaining the technical details of their protocol.

Aside from Telegrams own insistence that their crypto protocol has been independently verified, do you have another source? My understanding was that nobody has actually bothered to verify telegrams source code: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802