Telegram being one of the famous messaging application that has more than millions of users and there has been a news that terrorists are using Telegram messenger to communicate with their fellows. Recently there has been a post by a security researcher about the telegram security.
Some of the major features of the Telegram application are end-to-end encryption which prevents any middle person from sneaking into what data is being communicated. Another feature is the #Self Destruct messages which will delete after a specified period of time.
Apart from these features that are being provided by the Telegram a security researcher claims that it contains more security loopholes which he mentioned in his blog and they are as
1. End-to-end encryption is not enabled by default and have to be enabled before the chat begins and not possible with the existing or started conversation.
2. Another thing is that Telegram will access your mobile contacts and then upload the entire database into its own server and with that data it is possible to clearly draw a map that connects all people.
3. Using mobile phones will expose more metadata which can be used by any agency to retrieve the data such as time, location and the persons involved in the conversations.
4. There has been some consideration with encryption they uses but it is not yet publicly broken even after they declared a prize of $3,00,000.
With all these security loopholes the security researcher concludes that the app may be used for common use but not hold goos for terrorist activities and all. Telegram also closed 78 ISIS affiliated channels to cut down their communications to some extent.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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