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US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In telegram nothing is e2e encrypted unless you specifically ask it to be and when you do, it kills all the functionality that makes it better than others.

[โ€“] Deello@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

That's what I said. The person I replied to said that all messages are encrypted* with the asterisk being only if you specifically enable it. I clarified that it doesn't apply to group chats though. I don't use Telegram so the loss of functionality is actually a bigger deal to me than the argument around E2EE. Can you explain what features are lost when you enable it? It's a messaging app so I'm curious what you sacrifice for E2EE.