This is an article written by telegram's founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on "Why whatsapp will never be secure". Your thoughts?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You mean that XMPP protocol which is not encrypted by default? Oh yes you mean that.

XMPP would need to be redesigned from ground up as a secure and private messaging protocol to be a valid choice.

XMPP has it advantages but to many cry out that it is the savior when it is not. We need something better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The major clients now do have OMEMO. Yea, I agree it's flawed but that's so far it's the one I settled on. Do you know other, more refined selfhostable solutions? I am now looking for development there but doubt I'd get few people that I already got there to switch again.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Not aware that there is a modern decentralized secure and private chat protocol. Sadly. I also am not aware of any developmenta of something like that, so XMPP is the best we got (for decentralized open widly supported protocols)

    I know that a lot of clients do encryption of the message body by default, but it still leaves a lot of stuff in plain text (afaik).

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