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…

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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

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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.