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I 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.
But telegrams apps and Bots are growing exponentially and the developers unnecessarily keeping a basic work flow outside telegram, which is painful.
While every third party is doing these things everyday, Telegram is under the risk of getting targeted.
This implements the dream of authoritarian governments that internet access should never be anonymous. Russian government officials have long wanted to establish a similar authentication system.
Is Pavel with us or against us?
The unintented consequence of this will be that now any website can easily demand real life ID. Ordinary, non-financial websites (think Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News) will require ID to log in, to protect against spam and make the community safer. This implements the dream of authoritarian governments that internet access should never be anonymous. Russian government officials have long wanted to establish a similar a…
Would 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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keybase is a proprietary walled garden.. so.. no thanks.
Proprietary? The backend maybe, but the keybase clients are open source. Some of the code is a little rough, and completed API docs would be nice, especially concerning KBFS, which is still missing. It's still under heavy development though, so these shortcomings should be understandable. (I personally won't use it much until I can actually develop my own non-reverse-engineered client, but that's just my requirement.…
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I cannot up-vote this more. Many people don't realise that they don't own their phone number! It is possible to own a phone number but it is not widely available just like domains are. Hence it is a stupid idea to use it as an identity.
I recently learned this the hard way. I changed my phone number after moving cities, and AT&T just leased my old number to someone else!
Would 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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Proprietary? The backend maybe, but the keybase clients are open source. Some of the code is a little rough, and completed API docs would be nice, especially concerning KBFS, which is still missing. It's still under heavy development though, so these shortcomings should be understandable. (I personally won't use it much until I can actually develop my own non-reverse-engineered client, but that's just my requirement.…
No, the server implementation is proprietary. Therefore, it's a walled garden that relies entirely on them. Supporting federation would be going above/beyond just releasing the server implementation's source under a permissive license. As it stands today, you have no choice but to rely on their proprietary server implementation, since the clients are useless on their own.