Since WhatsApp announced its acquisition, a lot of people started to switch to alternatives, trying to escape from Facebook. Some of them then discovered my article about Telegram, and a common answer was "hey, at least, it is better than WhatsApp, because it is open source, faster and it has encryption".

Following the previous article, people have asked me what I would consider as a good secure system, and others asked me to review their app, so I think it will be interesting to expose my process when studying those projects.

Here is the second entry in our serie about weird encryption apps, about Telegram, which got some press recently.

Let's talk a bit about IO programming. Filesystem, network, GUI... You cannot write useful code without doing IO these days. So why is it so damn hard to do in "safe" languages like Haskell?

For the first article in the new post serie about "let's pick apart the new kickstarted secure decentralized software of the week", I chose SafeChat, which started just two days ago. Yes, I like to hunt young preys :p