Whatsapp Alternative

Ockie, you do realise you are on a one man crusade for Telegram while everyone else is over there -----> talking to each other via Whatsapp....
 
Dave123 said:
Ockie, you do realise you are on a one man crusade for Telegram while everyone else is over there -----> talking to each other via Whatsapp....
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All the people I talk to daily are on Telegram now. That is why I have finally deleted my WhatsApp account and deleted the app.
 
Dave123 said:
Ockie, you do realise you are on a one man crusade for Telegram while everyone else is over there -----> talking to each other via Whatsapp....
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It's a pity though that more people aren't using Telegram. It's better than WhatsApp but too may people don't even know it exists, never mind actually using it.
 
vinodh said:
It's a pity though that more people aren't using Telegram. It's better than WhatsApp but too may people don't even know it exists, never mind actually using it.
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You are right, I think I said as much previously. It's pointless as a Whatsapp alternative when everyone else is on Whatsapp and can't be bothered changing.

I've installed Telegram and Signal, no contacts available, on Whatsapp almost every contact with a smartphone is on it.
 
I've gotten two friends to change to Telegram so far. It's nice.
 
Sopbeen said:
Do you struggle to read or comprehend what you have read? They broke Telegrams "encryption". Which is why nobody who takes crypto seriously does homebrew encryption.
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This is completely incorrect. They didn't break Telegram encryption. Nobody did. It is like saying that SHA1 is cryptographically broken - theorethically yes. Practically before someone will success breaking Telegram, it will be patched or improved. They did show weaknesses in the encryption, communication protocol, some other in the implementation. Many of comments apply only to the older versions of MTProto. The most serious threat is man-in-the-middle attack and Telegram designers do acknowledge it on their Web site.
Sopbeen said:
As I've said, use telegram. Just do not punt/sell it as a secure communication solution, because its very far from it. You can expect similar level of privacy from Telegram than you do from Whatsapp.
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Of course I do use it, but I also use Telegram. The last comment is incorrect. In Whatsapp user is completely unaware whether his/her message will be delivered encrypted. Not to mention about lack of the mechanism for detecting MitM. It is not a serious approach to privacy. However since they introduced end-to-end encryption I will use it, as it is a step in the right direction. More people use it, is better. PGP was available for decades, but nobody use it in Emails. Why? People don't think about privacy at all.
 
genetic said:
Why worry if your messages are encrypted, unless you're committing a crime?
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This is what I wrote in my previous post: people don't care.
They should, but they don't. It would be off-topic to discuss in this thread. Open another one.
 
genetic said:
Why worry if your messages are encrypted, unless you're committing a crime?
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Because that sort of stuff should be private anyway, committing a crime or not, freely giving up information so easily is not a good thing.
 
hawker said:
Because that sort of stuff should be private anyway, committing a crime or not, freely giving up information so easily is not a good thing.
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If people had to read my messages, they would literally die of boredom!
 
Dave123 said:
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I've installed Telegram and Signal, no contacts available, on Whatsapp almost every contact with a smartphone is on it.
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hawker said:
I've gotten two friends to change to Telegram so far. It's nice.
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I managed to get a lot of people to install Telegram...and most dont mind. I got most people I talk to to install Telegram now, so deleted WhatsApp. You just have to make the effort and ask them to install it.
 
Ockie said:
I managed to get a lot of people to install Telegram...and most dont mind. I got most people I talk to to install Telegram now, so deleted WhatsApp. You just have to make the effort and ask them to install it.
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You see, I'm just not that fussed, I don't use Facebook so don't really see the "Facebook is bad" issue, I have Whatsapp, Viber, Skype, Signal, Yahoo messenger, and Telegram installed.

If people want to use Whatsapp, I don't really care and will just use it with the 50+ contacts who use it, if they migrate to something else that's ok too.
 
What about this - WhatsApp’s biggest competitor is Line, a messaging app that lets users send text messages, images, video and audio, was well as make phone calls over the internet or video conference.

The Line messaging app is available for almost every computer and mobile platform, including Windows, OS X, the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Nokia’s Asha and even Firefox OS.

Line has 350 million users globally, expanding rapidly from 10 million in December 2011 according to data from Statista. Line Corporation is headquartered in Japan, a subsidiary of South Korea’s online content and search company Naver Corporation.
 
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