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Telegram Messenger delivers candygrams to stalkers

  • 30 November 2015
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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It is far too easy and very easy to understand.
 

Too easy to work out who's talking to whom, says researcher

29 Nov 2015 at 21:57, Richard Chirgwin
 
Mere days after opsec expert The Grugq warned that popular messaging app Telegram Messenger couldn't be regarded as secure, another researcher has demonstrated how its metadata leaks expose users to stalking.
 
Over at Github, Ola Flisbäck offers up a depressing demonstration of just how easy it is to zero in on an individual by watching the stream of presence and status notifications.
 
Invisible to ordinary Telegram users, the metadata is accessible to command-line clients, Flisbäck says.
 
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edwin_eekelaers
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Isn't it this telegram app just the one thats  being used by  those ISIS critters... Ah well i'm too old for things like MSN and so and i got bored on Facebook so i quit that one too... Give me a good book and an old box to code on and i'm quiet & happy.

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