The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
- Clickbait title: Check.- Half-admission that the clickbait title might not apply (at the end of the article by mentioning Hanlon's Razor): Check.- Actual good criticism on "don't roll your own crypto": Check (this is not a sarcasm, I liked that part of the article very much).- Casual mention that the incident is from 7 years ago but implying that today there's a backdoor: Check.- HN going crazy negative when Telegram is mentioned, as it always happens: Check.---I am not shilling for Telegram. I have no reason to. I can switch to Signal with my most important contacts in the space of one hour if I wanted to. I never invested any money in them either. I won't get sad if they get nuked from orbit tomorrow.But it's really baffling how non-constructive most Telegram HN coverage is, both articles and comments. Sure, they have no bulletproof end-to-end encryption of messages. So, like 99.9% of all apps on all app stores then? Some generic marketing on the homepage using vaguely non-accurate language ("secure chats")? So, again, like 99.9% of the apps that have a page and put marketing lingo on them?What's so uniquely awful about Telegram?It's legitimately intriguing how hostile HN gets at the mention of Telegram. There might be some interesting sociological study hidden there somewhere.