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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

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Natanael@slrpnk.net to Cryptography @ Infosec.pub@infosec.pubEnglish · 2 months ago

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

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Holy false security, that’s wild

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