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To be fair to telegram; similar things happened to many big names: facebook, google, apple etc
by bluesign 2y ago
To be fair to telegram; similar things happened to many big names: facebook, google, apple etc
- lxgr 2y agoDelivering messages to the wrong recipient!? Examples, please!
- webappguy 2y agoCurious to know more. Will search but if anyone finds anything
- bluesign 2y agoThere are many examples, I posted one to parent. Usually it effects some small percentage of users. But size of the team or company not directly solving the problem.
- wiseowise 2y agoHow could client deliver messages to the wrong recipient? Why would client have messages for user outside of the one logged in anyway?
- ascar 2y agoSeems like a rather easy thing to go wrong in the client, no? User sends message via client. Client fumbles the recipient id. Message ends up at the wrong recipient. Examples: incorrect recipient ID attached to contact in list where users selects recipient. Buggy selection of multiple targets in the selection UI due to incorrect touch event handling. Incorrect deletion of previously selected and then deselected recipient from recipient array of multitarget message. Or if working low level even a good old off by one error and reading out of bounds data for the recipient list (though that one hopefully should trigger a faulty send request due to other stuff no longer matching). There is endless examples. The server can't really safeguard against the client providing a legitimate send request even though the user intended to send it to another recipient.
- ChrisClark 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27950763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27950763 Yeah, I don't know how they manage to get bugs like that, but it's happened
- bluesign 2y agohttps://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/26/google-privacy-bug-sent-chats-to-the-wrong-people https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/26/google-pr...