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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Wednesday, July 22, 2015 a las 10:30:29PM -0700, Nathan Haines escribió:

> On 07/22/2015 10:27 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > 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"
> 
> Which can't really happen the way Telegram is designed.  But even then, 
> this is very easily deduced--especially if the call goes to voicemail in 
> under 30 seconds.
> 
> The point is, Telegram is designed to be used with trusted, identified 
> persons, not strangers.  There's nothing wrong with finding it unuseful 
> or undesirable for any reason, but complaining that it does the thing it 
> was designed to do is more than a little silly.

The point is, that even between trusted and identified person every side
should be able to let the sender in the unsureness if the message
arrived to his/her eyes or not. This is what privacy is called and which
is violated by Telegram.

	matthias

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