@levelsio (Pieter Levels)
BY LEVELSIO – PIETER LEVELS
I am a massive fan of Telegram Messenger. When Facebook announced it acquired WhatsApp, I immediately switched for privacy reasons. Miraculously I managed to convince 95% of my friends to install Telegram and switch too. But this week I found out it’s trivially easy to get access to someone’s message history.
Telegram stores users’ message history on its servers. Unless you delete that history, it’s accessible perpetually. That’s a bit scary, but as long as nobody can access your messages, that’s fine. Right?
Well, yeah, but then getting access to anyone’s Telegram account is trivially easy.