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Re:Security professionals often warn against Telegram by darkfirefly on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:43AM (#25954445)
Telegram doesn't require your phone number? It did for me to sign up.
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Re:Security professionals often warn against Telegram by selykg on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:39PM (#25962162)
Sorry, you don't need to use your phone number to contact someone. You can just give them your Telegram username. Which is sufficient for me in my use case for Telegram.
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