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[Randall Ross <randall.ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/30/2015 01:32 PM, sturmflut wrote:
> Good evening dear list,
>
> I don't consider this discussion on-topic. Canonical "just" ports and
> ships an open-source Telegram client for Ubuntu and has no influence on
> any design decisions the Telegram team made. Read notifications are such
> a design decision, the "last seen" status can be hidden and adding a
> switch for it should be a topic for a bug report.
Good idea Simon. I have opened that bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/telegram-app/+bug/1521391

Features should indeed be discussed upstream with the team involved.
However, there might be a more fundamental platform "issue" forming
here. Not sure, and I'm just tabling this for discussion so please don't
read too deeply into it:

What role should a platform have in supporting (or not) the features
that are upstream?

Today it might be Telegram, and tomorrow something else that kicks off a
privacy discussion. At run-time, should the platform enforce some
pre-determined level of privacy or should the platform be a perfect
conduit for the features (or in the worst case anti-features) of any
given application?  I'm assuming there is a set of apps that would pass
required tests to get into the store, but then do (or share) things that
some people might not like later. (Maybe that's impossible, but I'd like
to at least explore the idea.) And, is AppArmor the answer or would
enforcement need to be in some other system?

I searched the list archive for "privacy" but didn't find much.
>
> Anything else should be discussed in the appropriate Telegram forums.
>
> Also if Canonical have at any point made official statements about
> privacy or security issues in Telegram then I have not gotten that memo,
> please refer me to it in private. As far as I can see Canonical do not
> even mention the words "private" or "secure" in the app store description.
I haven't seen any official statements either, but would love to read
and review if any have been made.

Cheers,
Randall.
>
> cheers,
> Simon
>