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Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare (techcrunch.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember when Telegram Inc was aware that could cause some massive issues down the line, and their response was to ignore it.

Then a state level actor abused this, and Telegram declared there was no issue, and they had fixed the issue.

[–] rdri 1 points 7 months ago

Welp, I wish there would be some massive movement against the feature of using the phone number as a login for any services.