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Are they allowing you to have accounts that don't depend on your phone number yet? I think last I checked you could only login with your phone number, which I c
by mtgx 9y ago
Are they allowing you to have accounts that don't depend on your phone number yet? I think last I checked you could only login with your phone number, which I consider extremely insecure, especially against a nation state agent (you'd think the Telegram team would care more about that, considering where they come from - and in fact, I believe there were some reports of Russian government hacking people like this with the help of national carriers, too).
- zimpenfish 9y ago> (you'd think the Telegram team would care more about that, considering where they come from) That assumes the Telegram team aren't part of the nation state apparatus, surely.
- fwdpropaganda 9y agoDo you have any reason to assume they are? Of course, other than the fact that the founder is _RUSSIAN_ gasp
- zimpenfish 9y agoI don't assume they are. But equally I don't automatically assume they aren't, either.
- fwdpropaganda 9y agoYou're just evading my point. Implicitely or explicitely you must have a _working_ hypothesis. When you make decisions, you must assume one or the other.
- ttsda 9y agoThere is an optional two-factor login (phone+password).