USA:  WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart criticised Telegram's encryption practises last week. With reference to a Wired article, Cathcart criticised Telegram, claiming that it was not end-to-end encrypted by default and that there were other flaws as well.

The Wired article, according to Telegram, contains numerous errors and their editorial team disregarded the company's comments and responses.

This is not the first time WhatsApp has criticised the security procedures of competing applications. The business released an advertisement in October of last year mocking Apple's iMessage service for lacking specific security features.

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Recall that the app, which is owned by Meta, has been the subject of serious complaints about its privacy practises and has been charged with spying on users' private messages.

This is a really important article from @DarrenLoucaides @Wired about Telegram. If you think Telegram is secure, you should read this article and understand the truth - especially before you use it for anything private.

Some really important points: https://t.co/WefbuS11Ov

— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) February 10, 2023

Cathcart criticised Telegram's use of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on Twitter. Cathcart tweeted that Telegram "has the capacity to share nearly any confidential information a government requests," quoting the Wired article.

He claimed that there were flaws in Telegram's E2EE policies, including the fact that it was not enabled by default and was not accessible for group chats. He also claimed that the policies had not been independently verified.

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Cathcart emphasised Telegram's lack of transparency. He also charged the business with using a location API that was flawed and that could have revealed users' locations down to about a 3-kilometer radius. If you're not going to use WhatsApp, use one of those other "great end-to-end messaging apps" rather than Telegram, the WhatsApp CEO advised.

In response to WhatsApp's accusations, Telegram claimed that Cathcart was mistaken about the company's protocol not being independently verified. Telegram clarified in response to the claim about location tracking that users had to specifically set visibility to "public."

According to the company, 0.01% of users have actually done this. The business has also called attention to a number of errors in the Wired article.

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According to Telegram's FAQ page, the company uses a distributed infrastructure to secure end-to-end encrypted data. According to Telegram, "Cloud chat data is stored in numerous data centres around the world that are controlled by various legal entities dispersed across different jurisdictions."

The fact that the decryption keys for chats are divided into pieces and never stored in the  same place.