However, this feature must be manually enabled by users, and most Telegram users likely do not do this for every message sent. Signal generally stores only the date on which you created your account and when you last connected. Telegram can advertise that it offers end-to-end encryption, however, because it has a feature called Secret Chat that end-to-end encrypts messages sent. Signal collects far less data on its users than Telegram does.
Why you would possibly need 200,000 people on a group chat is a mystery, but if you do, Telegram has the upper hand. Group chats in Telegram can host up to 200,000 people, and Signal's upper limit is 1,000 people.
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That contrasts with truly secure apps like WhatsApp and Signal, which are “end-to-end encrypted,” which means even the makers of those apps cannot access your messages because they do not hold the encryption keys (only the users do). Signal uses the Android lock and can be activated automatically after a certain time, on Telegram you have a little more control, be able to use a pin or. Through Telegram, you can share files that are up to 2GB in size, while Signal allows files up to 100MB. Both, Signal and Telegram support End to end encryption (E2E), however, the Signal has E2E is enabled by default, where-as in the case of Telegram a secret chat has to be initiated to enable E2E on the conversation to conversation basis. Telegram is such an app that is only “encrypted” by default. First and foremost, in security, we rely upon technologies that are secure by default.
If an app is merely encrypted, the company that makes the app owns the keys and can unlock your messages at any time. When most people hear a messenger is “encrypted” they think that means no one can read their messages–even the company that owns the app. Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal, has taken to Twitter to remind Ukrainians that Telegram isn’t truly an “encrypted” app in the way most people think about the term.
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