Telegram leaks your IP address to anyone in your contacts during a call. And a researcher has created a tool to easily exploit this.
#Telegram says this is expected behavior, so there's nothing to fix or change.
That's why our top WhatsApp alternatives are #Signal and #Threema: tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…
More on this story: techcrunch.com/2023/10/19/tele…
Best Private Alternatives to WhatsApp | Our Top 6
'Review of the best alternatives to WhatsApp: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX.'Tutanota
dayanamayan
in reply to Tuta • • •Austin Nunn 🏳️🌈🏁
in reply to Tuta • • •madved
in reply to Tuta • • •Telegram передает ваш IP-адрес кому-либо из ваших контактов во время разговора. И исследователь создал инструмент, позволяющий легко воспользоваться этим.
...перебор!
Axel Boldt
in reply to Tuta • • •Celinho
in reply to Tuta • • •Dmitry Borodaenko
in reply to Tuta • • •Signal CEO recently explained what Signal does to protect its users from this, and how much it costs them: signal.org/blog/signal-is-expe…
Use Signal, and if you do, buy a subscription. Don't leave it dependent on the good will of one billionaire.
aWildThorp
in reply to Tuta • • •This is kind of clickbait. A less manipulative headline would qualify that it leaks the IP to _the recipient_ of the call and that this is due to the VoIP protocol being _peer to peer_.
I won't argue that Signal is a more secure app, but Peer to Peer calling is not a security vulnerability. Many security focused people would consider peer to peer VoIP desirable. Especially since the alternative is the calls going through Telegram's servers
tekhne
in reply to Tuta • • •simplex.chat/
No phone number to register, no server ...
SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)
simplex.chaterr head 🏴☠️ ✂️
in reply to Tuta • • •I don't even like telegram, but this article is just fearmongering for normies.
Anyone who actually cares about IP security is going through a VPN anyway. If you are giving your IP willy nilly to every web page and tracking link, a 'hacker' is the least of your worries. Google, governments, and corporations have your IP fully collated with all your web traffic and the hackers just get it from them.
The argument that a centralized switchboard is more secure than p2p is a joke.
Vibuda Nimsara
in reply to Tuta • • •Léo
in reply to Tuta • • •Too bad that nothing is said about Session, Jami or Briar that are quite popular now, easy to use and pretty solid, even though they can be a bit buggy at times.
Encouraging people to use Signal is not acceptable in terms of privacy, precisely because of the cons that your article lists and what happened with Twilio. I don't get it.