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https://www.wired.com/2016/05/grindr-promises-privacy-still-...
Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location
Researchers in Kyoto demonstrate for WIRED how they can precisely track the locations of people using Grindr, Hornet, and Jack'd despite features meant to hide them.
The mentioned research paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.08235.pdf
Triangulation is often used incorrectly instead of trilateration as in this article. Since the author is dealing with distances and not angles it’s trilateration. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/17344/differences-be...
Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location
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it's a privacy issue. Users who enable the feature don't understand that are basically publishing thier latitude longitude online. Which can be resolved into a home address.
the warning message tells them _exactly that_.
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Telegram uses the Signal protocol? How do you propose Telegram give their users the ability to expose their location to other people without exposing their location to them?
How do you propose that users trust in their secure messaging app, when safety is the priority? Nothing stops you from putting your location into Telegram to send it. The issue is code that does it for you.
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Out of curiosity, how can end-to-end encryption be verified when both the clients and the servers are closed-source?
How can you know it’s not E2EE? The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, or something like that. I agree that closed source is harder to verify, but that’s not the same as insecure.
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Signal is terrible. I use the app still, but it’s horribly buggy. The disappearing messages, a hallmark feature, is fundamentally broken in some way that I can’t fully comprehend. Totally unreliable. Telegram is better in every way... except security.
I'm curious as toileting what you see as "horribly buggy" and what brokenness you see in disappearing messages? I use Signal on iOS, and it's pretty much flawless. Extremely rare for me to even hear friends (many of which I communicate with using Signal) talking about problems, I vaguely recall having something go wrong a long time back, but can't even recall what it was now, only that it went away and started workin…
If I open signal on my laptop sometimes it does this ridiculous “time lapse” where it strolls through messages one at a time.
Sometimes all the messages just randomly wiggle on my screen. No idea why.
I get that security verification thing all the time. All the time.
Got a new phone late last year and it wouldn’t sync.
Sticker packs will rearrange themselves at random.
I could go on for ages. It is hilariously buggy.
It's a shame that people still use Telegram when Signal is so much better, and has better credentials all around.
It's a shame that every time that Telegram is mentioned, Signal advocates feels the need to let everybody else know how superior Signal is supposed to be compared to everything else. I don't have anything against Signal itself, but this aggressiveness and arrogance is really putting me off. Has this became some kind of religion? Do you people realize that you are not the exclusive bearer of Truth, and that maybe, jus…
Telegram has been implicated in a number of privacy scandals, and then their responses critique the authors of the indictment rather than actually criticizing the arguments themselves. Signal, even up to the recent critiques by Cellebrite, immediately responds and them discusses the merits of the claim.
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https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-29-signal-ipad.html Works on tablets and desktops too. Just set it up as a linked device.
Well, I tried to set it up ob my parents iPad and it demanded that they also own a smartphone with the same phonenumber. They owned feature phones so they've been blocked. Telegram paired just fine and works on any number of devices without linking them together and worrying about connectivity/battery for the main device.
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it's a privacy issue. Users who enable the feature don't understand that are basically publishing thier latitude longitude online. Which can be resolved into a home address.
If people don't understand that publishing their location makes their location public, that's on them.
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the warning message tells them _exactly that_.
The message posted upthread ( https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png ) definitely does not say it will publish your location/address. It says people will be able to view your "profile".
"approximate location, don't worry we have thought a bit about security",
i think.
