Expert Nathaniel Suchy said that the desktop version of the Telegram messenger does not encrypt user correspondence. He announced this on his Twitter page. According to the expert, all the data of the correspondence is stored in a regular database, which can easily be hacked. Suchy investigated the desktop version of the client for Telegram and concluded that the correspondence is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database. He stressed that encryption is not enabled even if the secret chat is activated.
The programmer managed to open the database and download the messages from there the Python scripts (seriously?

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What do you think about it ? Telegram was my favorite messenger. this is really terrible news for me. What messenger to use now? I will feel uneasy if I continue to use telegrams.