Telegram counter attack. The instant messaging service responded to many accusations media Wired and Will Cathcart, the leader of WhatsApp.
Shortly after announcing the integration of one of Telegram’s best features, WhatsApp openly attacked its rival messaging system, which is increasingly overshadowing it.
Telegram contradicts WhatsApp
A Telegram spokesperson, Remi Vaughn, contacted the outlet GSM Arena to refute Will Cathcart’s claims about email security. Upstream, the company published a blog post in which it denies the allegations present in the American media point by point.
More specifically, Vaughn directly contradicts Cathcart who claimed that Telegram’s end-to-end encryption protocol in secret conversations has not been independently verified. He explains that a team from the University of Udine, Italy, verified the MTProto 2.0 protocol used by Telegram to secure its conversations.
” Telegram is the only popular secure messaging app that supports reproducible versions for iOS and Android, meaning the integrity of its secret messages can be independently confirmed by any researcher. In almost ten years of existence of Telegram, no security flaw allowing a third party to intercept or decrypt secret messages has ever been discovered. », Specifies Telegram in its blog. ” Wired chose not to add Telegram’s comments on the technical aspects of secret chats and the likely reasons for the behavior witnessed by its sources.”explains the company.
Telegram admits an issue that could compromise the security of secret conversations and advises users to verify authentication key fingerprints through a secure external channel to avoid a man-in-the-middle attack. It is a form of eavesdropping and data theft where a hacker intercepts data from a sender to a receiver and then from the receiver to the sender. Mail notes that this flaw can also occur on Signal.
Telegram is going crazy Wired
Regarding a supposed infiltration of the Kremlin in messaging, Telegram assures that the media wrongly quoted Georgy Lobushkin, a Russian media official. The courier also denies selling bonds to a partnership between an Abu Dhabi state fund and a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.
” Wired’s editors and fact checkers chose to retain over 15 significant errors and omissions made by their editor – and chose to mention Telegram’s comments in just 3 instances, despite having received detailed responses to over 30 questions “, regrets Telegram. The messaging clarifies that the list of errors it found in the blog post are ” being extended “.
Sources: GSM Arena, Telegram
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