Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by int_19h on Thursday November 07, 2024 @08:12PM (#42083100)

Telegram is encrypted if you tell it to be. Did you?

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by itake on Thursday November 07, 2024 @08:54PM (#42083338)

OP hints that the keyword checks are on-device, which would not be protected by e2ee.

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by nu11ptr on Thursday November 07, 2024 @08:56PM (#42083355)

Is the client not open source?

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by Gigachad on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:05PM (#42084034)

Kinda, not really. It’s different per version of the client. The source on GitHub is usually super out of date and it’s unlikely the distributed version is built off the GitHub source unmodified.

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by quyleanh on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:30PM (#42084143)

They just did delay pushing the latest version of source code, didn't they? I remember there is a help page which instructs you to compare the source of both GitHub and clients version.

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by Tiberium on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:07AM (#42084578)

The out of date source is mainly for the Android Telegram client, but not that much, it's usually 1-2 minor versions away at max. https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

tdesktop one https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop gets updated directly, not sure about the iOS and macOS ones.

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Re:Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanni... by itake on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:04PM (#42083398)

they are.. OP could check the code to confirm though.

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