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[Randall Ross  <randall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/30/2015 11:08 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Monday, November 30, 2015 a las 04:46:04PM +0100, Ed Kapitein escribió:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is some debate about how safe telegram is.
>> For those who are interested, the full article is at [1].
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ed
>>
>> [1] https://oflisback.github.io/telegram-stalking/
> The article matches my experience with the Telegram client on the BQ. I
> ported the mentioned cli client to the BQ and could proof this. In
> addition to the mentioned problems, the Telegram clients and protocol
> violates the privacy of the receiver by letting the sender know when the receiver has
> the message on the screen. There has been a long discussion here in the
> list about this and even an issue in LP. Both (Canonical and Telegram)
> claim this read-notification being a feature and not a bug or privacy
> violation.
>
> 	matthias

It would seem to me that "notify others that I am doing things" should
be an opt-in feature in a secure system, and not default behaviour.

Cheers,
Randall.