Recommended private chats and social networks for Whonix

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Wow, I didn’t know about this. Cool. Then I can add some additions to the wiki on the topic of messengers. For example, I can edit a bit of the section about Telegram: the information about calls is now outdated, but I can add articles where mtproto 2.0 is criticized for weak cryptography. And I can help add information about Simplex Chat, Briar and Session based on forum messages, If sections about these messengers are created in the wiki (I can’t create sections in the wiki, can I?). And I hope the moderators will correct my possible formatting errors when editing the wiki

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Okay. I will prepare a text on new messengers and send it to you. and I tried to edit page about telegram (made the actual information), please check it.
Thank you

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That must have failed. No edit has been received by the wiki.

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Hmmm. Okay. I will try again.

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Done

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Edits accepted.


Added just now: Telegram Data Harvesting and Telegram User Freedom Threats.

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Patrick, I made a small correction in wiki. It seems that my edits have disappeared from the site, but I can see it in the editing section. Please check.
New edits only appear after reloading wiki page after accepting site’s terms. Sorry for the inconvenience

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Perhaps some wiki editing usability issues, documented just now:
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I want to share a great telegram review. The author very subtly ironizes about the security of telegram and provides very important arguments that telegram deliberately misleads users and makes every effort to ensure that users never use secret chats

By default, Telegram chats do not use end-to-end encryption, and nor does the messenger inform users about the secure chat option. Who could have thought that a user who just installed a messenger precisely because it was advertised as secure wanted to keep correspondence private? Answers on a postcard, please. The upshot is that when a user creates a new chat, Telegram neither offers to secure it nor even hints at the existence of an option other than the default chat.

What’s especially interesting is that the secret chat button is hidden as deep as possible. It’s not in the chat interface itself. It’s not available at the next level either: even if you tap the name of your chat partner and go to their profile, you won’t find the coveted button there. You need to dig a bit deeper: tap the three dots menu, rummage around in the secondary features, and there it is — the secret chat option with end-to-end encryption.

Another complaint arises regarding the name Telegram has given to its end-to-end encrypted chats. The developers could have called them something neutral like “secure”, “protected”, or “private”. But no: they went for “secret” — and this word has a very interesting effect on people’s perception.

Many a time, after creating a secret chat in Telegram, I receive a sarcastic quip from the other end something like: “Wow James – For My Eyes Only, eh?!?” Others apprehensively enquire as to what could possibly be so important – or naughty or something else – for its needing to be secret.

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