Deployed 82nd Airborne unit told to use these encrypted messaging apps on government cell phones
www.armytimes.com
“Unfortunately, those apps are more secure than texting in the clear, which is more or less the alternative. Granted, if a hostile party has access to the handset, that encryption isn’t particularly helpful.”

A little old but interesting non the less

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Because in most cases it isn’t encrypted, when it is it severely reduces functionality, and it doesn’t even use a crypto alg that’s widely approved of by trusted crypto experts?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I hope you are joking

      Telegram has strong ties to the US government. It isn’t encrypted by default and has a closed source system.