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Re: Bug#737563: ITP: telegram-cli -- Command-line interface for Telegram



Hi,

On Montag, 3. Februar 2014, Cleto Martín wrote:
> * URL             : https://github.com/vysheng/tg
>  Telegram messenger is a cloud-based instant messaging platform
>  designed for smart phones and similar to Whatsapp but more flexible,
>  and powerful. You can send messages, photos, videos and documents to
>  people who are in your phone contacts (and have Telegram). Telegram
>  also supports secret chats whose provide a private (encrypted) way of
>  communication.

according to http://blog.tincho.org/posts/Telegram/ the privacy of this 
tool/plattform is non existing, it rather collects the users private data and 
sends it to a server. 

I believe such software should not be packaged for+in Debian as it seems to be 
today...: literally, a money-quote from this blog post (from a fellow DD): 

"The first thing the application did was to check my address book for 
contacts, without my permission or knowledge. I got greeted by being told that 
some of my contacts already have Telegram installed, and since then I keep 
getting notification that some more of my geek friends are installing it. So 
it is obvious that this company got all my records, breaking my privacy and 
security."


cheers,
	Holger, who hasn't tried telegram himself...

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