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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Why the downvotes? Can we not discuss the implications of “progress at all costs”?
Comment · 8 years ago
Changing the world one murdered-by-starvation Yemeni at a time.
How do you accept funding from oppressive, dictatorial, mysoginist regimes and then claim to “make the world a better place”?
Sigh. The political implications are so ironically cringe-worthy
Comment · 8 years ago
Viewing your screen should be subject to permissions simply because it can supersede all permissions to access sensitive data.
Comment · 8 years ago
Something malicious being easily technically possible with no risk and significant economic upside will statisically occur due to simple distribution of motives at large.
+1, only you can decide to install a program. However its total functional scope, "what it does", is never fully known, unless it is open source. "Doing research" about the developer will not solve the lack of transparency in the tool you're installing. It is the consumer OS's responsibility to make sure third parties don't get access to data consumers would deem sensitive, without proper authorization.
Comment · 8 years ago
You, my friend, are vulnerable like any other Mac user, to a trustworthy piece of software that has but a single dependency implementing the screen-reading mentioned in the article. Don't think for a second that "being careful" will save you. Apps aren't open source. This is the point of this article.
Comment · 8 years ago
The very article of this post is an instance of spyware that any developer can implement. In effect, if you're using a Mac, any app can be spyware and you will never, ever know.
Comment · 8 years ago
So if it needs it to implement its features, you would like to know about it. Otherwise you inevitably get spyware.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wrong.
1) Your webcam turns a light on. Not permission, but you know what's going on.
2) "People must grant permission for an app to access personal information, including the current location, calendar, contact information, reminders, and photos."
https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines...
Comment · 8 years ago
Please humor me, why in the world does an app need to read/write your screen? It is provided a window for that.
If it doesn't need to read/write your screen in order to provide its features, and then does it, wouldn't you agree that something is fishy? Wouldn't you like to know when fishy things are going on?
What is the point of security if any app you download can see everything you do?
Comment · 8 years ago
So apps need to ask for location but not to see everything you do? WTF
Comment · 8 years ago
There is ongoing litigation with regards to the ownership of original Telegram client (issued under "Telegram LLC" based in Russia). Telegram X is released under "Telgram Messenger LLP" which is based in London and seemingly wholly owned by Durov. See my root comment for more details
Comment · 8 years ago
There may be political motive to this.
Why is Telegram X issued by "Telegram Messenger LLP" while the original Telegram is issued by "Telegram LLC"?
Telegram LLC, which issues the original Telegram app on the App Store has been undergoing litigation with regards to its ownership. It is based out of Russia and a company called UCP with Krelim ties who 'bought' VKontakte has been suing Durov for full Telegram ownership pursuant to VKontakte 'purchase'.
Telegram Messenger LLP however is based in London and seemingly wholly owned by Durov crew. In 2014, Telegram Messenger LLP launched Telegram HD, a separate app from Telegram-LLC-issued-Telegram. Now it is launching Telegram X , another separate app (which was until very recently Challegram, an open source Telegram client, winner of Telegram contest, and purchased by Durov) .
Draw your own conclusions.
EDITED for clarity and details
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-telegram-lawsuits-ex...
http://www.ewdn.com/2014/07/29/pavel-durov-has-cloned-telegr...
https://rusletter.com/articles/ucp_requires_to_recognize_tel...
http://www.frandroid.com/android/applications/securite-appli...
Comment · 8 years ago
There may be political motive to this.
Why is Telegram X issued by "Telegram Messenger LLP" while the original Telegram is issued by "Telegram LLC"?
Telegram LLC, which issues the original Telegram app on the App Store has been undergoing litigation with regards to its ownership. It is based out of Russia and a company called UCP with Krelim ties who 'bought' VKontakte has been suing Durov for full Telegram ownership pursuant to VKontakte 'purchase'.
Telegram Messenger LLP however is based in London and seemingly wholly owned by Durov crew. In 2014, Telegram Messenger LLP launched Telegram HD, a separate app from Telegram-LLC-issued-Telegram. Now it is launching Telegram X , another separate app (which was until very recently Challegram, an open source Telegram client, winner of Telegram contest, and purchased by Durov) .
Draw your own conclusions.
EDITED for clarity and details
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/the-telegram-lawsuits-ex...
http://www.ewdn.com/2014/07/29/pavel-durov-has-cloned-telegr...
https://rusletter.com/articles/ucp_requires_to_recognize_tel...
http://www.frandroid.com/android/applications/securite-appli...
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
“Practice what you preach”
From a previous article
“Most people do not share the belief that a process must be morally pure before its results can be celebrated; they can be jubilant about the Falcon Heavy and question Tesla’s treatment of its workers at the same time, without the one invalidating the other. “