404 Media
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Joseph Cox
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
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TeleGuard, a chat app with over a million downloads, claims to offer secure messaging but has critically flawed encryption that researchers describe as "meaningless." The app's fatal flaw is that it uploads users' private encryption keys to the company's servers, making message decryption trivial and defeating the purpose of end-to-end encryption.
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