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The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted
Telegram is a lot of things, but it's not an encryption-first messaging service.
Telegram is a lot of things—a great place for open-source intelligence about war, a possible vector for child sex abuse material, and a hub for various scams and crimes—but it is absolutely not an encrypted chat app. To find it in the iOS app, I had to click at least four times—once to access the user’s profile, once to make a hidden menu pop up showing me the options, and a final time to ‘confirm’ that I wanted to use encryption. More than five years later Telegram still doesn’t have end-to-end encryption on by default, Signal is fixing its known security issues, and the French have arrested Durov on a host of charges related to the spread of illicit material on the platform.
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