Encryption is here to stay: Secure messaging app Telegram hits 100 million users

zdnet.com ^ | February 24, 2016 | By Steve Ranger

[dennisw]

so Apple encryption is irrelevant. One can encrypt communications this way via a free app.

I suppose an iphone user can double encrypt with “Telegram” just to be sure

[Democrat_media]

Informative good article

[Resolute Conservative]

I don’t have anything that important on my phone. Contact list and meaningless texts to children and wife.

[ShadowAce]

[Cementjungle]

To be honest, if I were a terrorist I would only use my smartphone for non-terrorist activities like ordering pizza, horsing around on Facebook, the flashlight app, the weather, playing music, and so on. I would pick up a pre-paid cheapie anonymous phone for my actual terrorist-related work activities.

Better yet, I would make my notes, maps, plans, lists and stuff like that using old-fashioned pen and paper which can be burned after I'm done with it. But, that's just me.

[catnipman]

“I don’t have anything that important on my phone. Contact list and meaningless texts to children and wife.”

What??? You mean you don’t have a private email server for conducting classified government business? I thought EVERYBODY had one of those!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is what the USPS should be doing. It should eliminate mail service and become both a social media site and a secure messaging app.

[Talisker]

I don't have anything that important on my phone. Contact list and meaningless texts to children and wife.

So what? Shall we use you as a litmus test for the legality of encryption availability?

[Resolute Conservative]

Absolutely not, unless you just want to...

[Talisker]

Then I don’t get your point.

[Resolute Conservative]

My point is only visible if you have a Rijndael token key.

[gaijin]

How resolute a conservative can you really be?

why are you even on Free Republic?

[Zathras]

Different types of encryption.
Apple locks the door to your home.
Telegram puts a lock on the mail leaving your home.

If Telegram is doing what I think they are, its not really that secure.

[dayglored]

> so Apple encryption is irrelevant.

Now, now, Dennis, you know better than that.

This app is a cute limited-use item that helps in one particular circumstance. It has value. But it's like saying that because someone is selling a VW Beetle, that no one else has any need for a moving van, an 18-wheeler, a farm tractor, a backhoe, etc.

Apple's encryption covers much more than the simple messaging done by Telegram.

[zeugma]

Interesting. Never heard of Telegram. It appears to be in the Fedora Linux repository though...

Name        : telegram-cli
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.3.1
Release     : 3.20150710gitcf6cb9.fc21
Size        : 818 k
Repo        : updates/21/x86_64
Summary     : Linux Command-line interface for Telegram
URL         : https://github.com/vysheng/tg
License     : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Description : Telegram is an Open Source instant messaging platform for mobile and
            : desktop focused on privacy.
            : This is a Linux Command-line interface for Telegram.
 

[Resolute Conservative]

What does encryption have to do with browsing the FR?

[Democrat_media]

Maybe the USpS can go away along with the IRS and the rest of government. hope so

[dennisw]

Apple encryption is irrelevant......What I meant is the FBI’s obsession with breaking Apple encryption is bit of a side show if any jamoke can send encrypted messages this way via telegram