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Telegram refutes claims made by Wired and WhatsApp head Will Cathcart about the security of the app.
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The Wired article contains many errors, according to Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn.
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Telegram compiled a list of 9 errors in the article.
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Location tracking is only possible if the user explicitly makes their location publicly visible, which is rare.
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Telegram's End to End Encryption protocol has been independently verified by a team from Italy’s University of Udine.
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Telegram's app is open source and has used reproducible builds since version 5.13.
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Telegram servers are not open source, but the Udine team also verified the MTProto 2.0 protocol in the presence of malicious servers.
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One problem that could break the security of secret chats is the failure to check the fingerprint of the authentication keys through a safe external channel.
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Man-in-the-middle attacks are possible if the user fails to check the fingerprint.
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Similar user errors are possible when using the Signal app as well.