You have to manually enable this feature, called Secret Chat. VK is now purportedly owned by allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.īy default, the app doesn’t encrypt end-to-end communications (e.g., between your phone and the person’s phone you are chatting with). After years of clashing with the Russian government over censorship issues on his social networking site, he and his brother fled Russia in 2013 for Buffalo, New York, where they started Telegram. In 2006, Pavel Durov created a Facebook clone for Russia, VKontakte (also referred to as “VK”). Telegram, the app and non-profit company supporting it, was founded by brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Telegram was designed to be a secure messenger that third-parties wouldn’t be able to intercept. The governments of Iran and Russia have banned Telegram for thwarting them from accessing communications conducted on the app by their citizens and others inside their countries. In addition to technical questions about how safe it truly is for users counting on it to keep their messaging activity private, the app has been in the news for political reasons throughout the first half of 2018.
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown in popularity in the secure messaging category (its developers claim the app has over 200 million users), but with controversy.
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