telegram

Hi, why did you choose a Telegram bot and not other popular chat platforms?

Further we wanted the telegram bot to be another way to use icliniq.com, our flagship portal.

Hi codewithcheese, Telegram is known for it's security, so we started our first build on it.

Hi Smirnoff, Telegram bots are designed to run within a limited environment.

I read that Telegram used a custom crypto protocol instead of standard ones, which was a cause for concern [1].

I'm assuming glokon means Telegram for Android.

Oh nice, so Telegram does not use phone numbers at all?

Is this the only source for Telegram open sourcing their servers?

For the iMessage, it is just for iPhone, Telegram is all-platform.

And that answer was icliniq on telegram with icliniq bot.

Simply because telegram had wonderful API's to make it seamless.

Whatsapp does not provide API's as rich as telegram.

Archer Blood's famous "Blood Telegram" talks about the atrocities that he and his team witnessed.

I really wish people wouldn't base their claims on security contests like this: "nobody has claimed the reward so it must be secure" is fundamentally a really bad argument, and - as Moxie's article on the Telegram crypto contest [1] demonstrates - it's easy to design constraints that look reasonable but in fact make the contest unwinnable, regardless of the scheme's security.

I already implemented in the past crypto for Telegram, there waere a lot of small mistakes in the implementation part.

Cause China gov heard that the so-called dissidents were using Telegram.

Also most of the libraries a buggy, we implement simple and time-proven solution (that was done when i worked at Telegram).