Introducing Telegram Passport
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Introducing Telegram Passport
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#2I’m not sure if I’d really trust any platform to store my personal documents without encrypting them myself before the upload.
But I’m always amazed at the pace at which Telegram keeps improving its feature set and UX. I haven’t experienced a messaging platform that’s anywhere close to it on these aspects. And for these reasons alone, it still remains my primary messaging application (while I keep checking the competition to see where they are).
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#3Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
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#4I really wish telegram would focus on being a messaging app and not whatever this is. I'm not going to trust them with my info.
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#5Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
Add signal and whatsapp (not that i use whatsapp) to that.
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#6Telegram has a history of including fairly obvious backdoors in their products https://habr.com/post/206900/
Why should anyone trust them for identification or for storing sensitive documents?
(And no, that DH behavior cannot be explained away as a simple mistake)
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#7Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
Intentionally building Chatdog (https://chat.dog) to not require a phone number.
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#8Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
If I could only upvote this more. I still want someone to take signal's protocol and do a BYOK approach. Let me use Keybase or something similar to handle identity management. Additionally, each device (or app instance) gets its own key. Signal and WhatsApp already do encrypted group messages. Treat each of my devices as different "users", who present with the same name.
It's a tractable problem.
(NB: Not necessarily keybase, but they do have a technical solution to the problem in place already.)
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#9Would Telegram and others please stop using phone number as a primary source of identity? It's 2018, I have a data only sim and I have no desire to have a phone number.
I think everyone wants phone numbers to prevent people generating billions of accounts to spam people with.
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#10Telegram has a history of including fairly obvious backdoors in their products https://habr.com/post/206900/ Why should anyone trust them for identification or for storing sensitive documents? (And no, that DH behavior cannot be explained away as a simple mistake)
I feel that your post is being a bit dishonest, as it ends with the following:
> UPD: The story ended well. Vulnerability is corrected, documentation and applications are updated, treasure hunters of bugs are motivated, which has already yielded results (1, 2). It is necessary to pay tribute to the developers of Telegram, who immediately reacted to the article.
It's hard to say that it's not a mistake when the author of the article itself describes their response as "immediate".
Durov and Telegram have more or less shown their mettle; there was no money or profit in standing up to Russia, but they went ahead and did it anyways when it would have been easier to buckle. Yes, it has flaws in its implementation, but so far they've proven that when push comes to shove, they're willing to fight for their politics and to keep on fighting against such regimes. Once this changes, sure, it's fine to lay into them, but right now it really looks like they're true to their word.