> All the security services need is to find one protesters phone force the person to unlock it and they have it all.
This is true for all apps regardless of how good their network encryption is. With Telegram it's possible to delete messages for everyone. Not so in some other apps.
"With Telegram it's possible to delete messages for everyone"
If the phone is in airplane mode, or faraday bag it's not receiving any "delete message" commands.
Also, with Telegram the case is, when the Belarusian, Russian, Chinese, Israeli, US... intelligence agency compromises the server, they can see every group message of every group, because by design Telegram's group chats never use E2EE.
Every cryptographer agrees Telegram's encryption is shit. Let's start believing them.
> Yeah it's pretty annoying that group chat displays real names and profiles.
Don't use real name in profiles. You can also set Telegram to show your profile picture only to your contacts and also choose to not share it with specific users or groups in the privacy settings.
> Also group chat has a search feature for all time.
This is managed by the group administrator when setting up the group to either limit history to new members or provide all history to new members.
All the security services need is to find one protesters phone force the person to unlock it and they have it all.
I am sure all network traffic of any kind was heavily monitored too.
It also becomes entirely useless when the authority turns off the internet.
There is another one that can work with a Bluetooth mesh https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsi...
That Bluetooth is easy to notice and I’m the past was easy to listen in on. I presume that is better now.