January 27, 2014 at 17:45Found a new Telegram application bug
Developed by Durov’s team, Telegram is increasingly successfully engaging mobile device users, forcing WhatsApp to share their audience. It should be noted that the application interface is incredibly similar to that of its competitor (here we will try not to recall the similarity of fb and vk, nor the sale of shares by Durov), but it is famous for its invincible, unlike WhatsApp, encryption algorithm and privacy.
In the process of checking Telegram for this very confidentiality, my colleague and I found a small but unpleasant “feature”: if the messenger was used on several devices under the same phone number, then after relogging the application on one of the devices, some “connection” between the devices remains on Contacts created by the new number are added to the previous number.
I will explain:
There are 2 devices. We put on both Telegram devices, log in using one phone number.
Everything works as stated: current chats are synchronized between devices, "secret" chats remain available only on the device from which they were initiated. Next, go to the settings of the application of device No. 1, click "Terminate All Other Sessions" and the session on device No. 2 is really dead. At least it seems so.
It seems that device No. 2 has nothing to worry about. Now he wants to use the Telegram application regardless of the first device and logs in to Telegram with a different phone number. After that, U2 adds a new contact to his application, which is not in the phone book of device No. 1, starts communicating with him at that moment and in Telegram, and in the phone book of the first device, an identical contact is created with all the data stored by device No. 2 about it.
If you restart the application on the second device, the bug does not repeat.
In the process of checking Telegram for this very confidentiality, my colleague and I found a small but unpleasant “feature”: if the messenger was used on several devices under the same phone number, then after relogging the application on one of the devices, some “connection” between the devices remains on Contacts created by the new number are added to the previous number.
I will explain:
There are 2 devices. We put on both Telegram devices, log in using one phone number.
Everything works as stated: current chats are synchronized between devices, "secret" chats remain available only on the device from which they were initiated. Next, go to the settings of the application of device No. 1, click "Terminate All Other Sessions" and the session on device No. 2 is really dead. At least it seems so.
It seems that device No. 2 has nothing to worry about. Now he wants to use the Telegram application regardless of the first device and logs in to Telegram with a different phone number. After that, U2 adds a new contact to his application, which is not in the phone book of device No. 1, starts communicating with him at that moment and in Telegram, and in the phone book of the first device, an identical contact is created with all the data stored by device No. 2 about it.
If you restart the application on the second device, the bug does not repeat.