Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]

Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by api on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:30AM (#26861978)

This is one of those replies that should be put in some kind of HN canon. It perfectly shows why there are so few privacy or security respecting options. They did the correct thing for security and you switched.

As I've observed for a long time: UX is more powerful than anything else except maybe cost, and even then one driver for user preference for "free" apps is not having to dig out a card... so cost is also UX.

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by zeitg3ist on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:27AM (#26863103)

That’s a bit unfair. I value privacy for some things but for other things I value more not losing my message history. Telegram is not as secure as other options by default, but for me it strikes a good balance between convenience/usability and privacy, as I can optionally open a self-destroying secret chat when I need it.

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by kitkat_new on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:51PM (#26868328)

With Matrix you get privacy with message history.

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Re:Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messenge... by zeitg3ist on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:10AM (#26872740)

Thanks for the suggestion, I will try it out.

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