WhatsApp and Telegram have gotten into a fight on Twitter. Of course, it was about WhatsApp’s new privacy policy and a few virtual blows were dealt back and forth.
WhatsApp and Telegram on end-to-end encryption
The official Telegram account has posted a tweet on Twitter, in which we see the history of the Windows trash can with at the end their version of the latest variant: a trash can containing Facebook and WhatsApp. Telegram often publishes similar tweets that put WhatsApp in a less good light, but WhatsApp has also responded to Telegram’s tweet for the first time. WhatsApp suggests in its response that Telegram does not encrypt its chats via end-to-end encryption. Messages could therefore be intercepted by Telegram or other parties.
Telegram admin: “…and what people dont know is we’re not end-to-end encrypted by default” pic.twitter.com/yac1iSMc27
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 14, 2021
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Telegram’s response was not long in coming. The company indicates that the WhatsApp platform is not secure because messages can be backed up by services from Apple and Google. Both companies are not quite right. Telegram stores messages in the cloud. The advantage of this is that you can access the conversations from multiple devices, and the company has previously indicated that it cannot read these messages.
— Telegram Messenger (@telegram) May 14, 2021
Telegram does offer secret chats where this encryption is present. Google and Apple cannot just read the messages in the chat backups. For that, they would need a key that can decrypt the backup file. In addition, WhatsApp is working on the possibility to encrypt the backup file in Google Drive itself.
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