Hello, dear reader today we will talk about the creation of Pavel Durov, the so-called ultra-secure messenger Telegram, which in recent days has lost its anonymity of data.
Telegram is a cross-Platform messenger that allows you to exchange messages and media files in many formats. We use a proprietary server part with closed code, running on the capacities of several companies in the United States and Germany, funded by Pavel Durov in the amount of about 13 million US dollars annually, and several open source clients, including under the GNU GPL license
Telegram has lost its data anonymity?
Russian developers have created a special bot: telegram user deanonymizer, which can detect your IP, last names, first names and phone numbers of telegram messenger users, as well as find out their current device location
To do this, it only needs to know your username in telegram
As an example of how the technology works: the Developers gave an example of the case of a police Lieutenant Colonel in 2018 in the Moscow region, a week later, a telegram account was found from which threats were made to the Lieutenant Colonel
Experience of this bot: allows us to effectively establish a connection between the linked number and a specific account in the telegram messenger and get the necessary data (phone number, geotags, first name and last name)
Together we collect user data Telegram we can with high probability identify a specific mobile device from which a person uses a messenger, telegram CEO says developer deanonymize company “Internet search” Igor Bederov.
This is a translation of an article from my blog: @ZPmirov