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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Wednesday, July 22, 2015 a las 10:20:04PM -0700, Nathan Haines escribió:

> On 07/22/2015 10:16 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Of course it is a privacy violation case when a piece of software is
> > giving to others the information (without my permission) that I have
> > received a message on the screen. No matter if the propriety server of
> > Telegram (and FB and others) are expected to work so. Tomorrow someone will
> > perhaps say, software is expected to have back doors for NSA and so we
> > must implement this because it "is expected to work".
> 
> No, the stated design is for communication between trusted friends you 
> know in real life and have exchanged phone numbers with.  This is like 
> picking up the telephone to make a call and then complaining that it 
> violates your privacy because it reveals the sound of your voice and the 
> ones you call could recognize your voice later.

No. The comparisation you use is wrong. It is like: you get a call and
you do not want to pick it up for whatever reason. And the service
provider gives to the caller the message "phone was ringing, I know the
person is sitting next to the phone, but unwilling to pick it up"

	matthias

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