Today, Telegram is often referred to as the “new Dark Web” because most of the drug trade has migrated to the app.
The creators of Telegram market their messaging app as safe and secure. But in practice, this isn’t entirely true: the fact is that Telegram has a number of features that make it difficult to protect your conversations in real life—and these have nothing to do with the complexities of cryptography.
The first thing to understand is that virtually all existing messaging systems have long used data encryption when transmitting messages from a user’s device to the server. This is the bare minimum that any modern messaging app should provide. However, this is not enough to consider a messaging system secure, as it does not guarantee the complete security of conversations.
And here’s why: if the service provider has access to messages in addition to the conversation participants, this creates additional risks. For example, the service owners themselves might be overly curious. Or let’s even assume that the current owners are completely honest and don’t snoop on user data—who guarantees that the next owners, to whom the messenger will be sold, won’t do so? After all, the service could be hacked—and in that case, a hacker or law enforcement agencies could gain access to the correspondence.
In addition, Telegram’s administration is increasingly organizing campaigns involving mass account suspensions targeting sellers of various goods and services
Sure, Thor isn't perfect. He's slow and not very intuitive. But if you're choosing based on safety, Thor definitely wins this round.
