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Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by brink on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:11AM (#34817698)
You can put a password on your telegram account.
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by lallysingh on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:24AM (#34817790)
.. can you reset that password? Using a text message?
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by guitarlimeo on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:34AM (#34817868)
You actually can't, if you forget the password, the account will remain indefinitely locked (and deleted after 6 months of inactivity if you haven't changed the default time).
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by DoctorMckay101 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:44AM (#34817967)
Technically yes but it takes 1 more step.

afaik (maybe I'm wrong) you can only reset a Telegram cloud password with a recovery email address. And you can maybe access that email address through a SMS based recovery.

Having your Telegram account with a cloud password and the recovery email locked with a safe 2FA method "should be safe".

Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by dxuh on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:55AM (#34818052)
The other answer to your comment says that you can't, so it's possible the the feature is broken or something? But you can configure a recovery email, which is supposed to be used, if you forget your password. But I have not used it yet.
Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by ShowalkKama on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:28AM (#34818327)
You can but it takes 7 days and it's really noisy

Steps to pwn assuming you don't have access to their email:

1) insert phone number (victim receives code via telegram)

2) ask code via sms

3) intercept sms and login

4) click "reset password" on the 2fa prompt (victim receives message stating that they requested a password reset and they have 7 days to confirm their phone number (via sms) or their account will be reset)

5) wait 7 days

6) repeat steps 1-3

7) click "reset password"

8) confirm reset

9) yey you logged in as the victim, all the chat history is permanently deleted and the old sessions are invalidated kicking out the victim

Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’ by anonymoose33282 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:10AM (#34818823)
No, you can only reset it with an email (that you add when setting up the password) or using an already-active device.