iPhone "security" ?
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megaadam wrote:
On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts.
How are you verifying this? Are your contacts saved to some other location that the app may have access to?
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He answers "no" when the question arises by installation. Mwawaaaahahaa.
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He answers "no" when the question arises by installation. Mwawaaaahahaa.
Bet he also clicks the "No tracking" option in his browser settings :)
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It's not like Android security is such a brightly shining star either.
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megaadam wrote:
It's not like Android security is such a brightly shining star either.
At least they don't charge you a premium price for android - comes on a $50 flip phone. Moreover, they don't threaten your warranty unless you only do business with them.
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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I wonder if anybody here can explain this: On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts. Despite this my Telegram [messaging-]app discovers my contacts, when friends sign up for Telegram. :confused::confused::confused: No it is not because they have me in their contacts/Telegram, they appear in Telegram with the nickname i have given them in my "Contacts". And please save your "Apple-fanboi-jokes" for a better opportunity. Thanks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
PRIVACY ISSUE DISCOVERED IN TELEGRAM MESSAGING APP xxxxx://blackmereconsulting.com/privacy-issue-discovered-in-telegram-messaging-app/ could be it sucked your contacts before you disabled its access... and then uploaded it to the cloud.. best thing is to try see if they have any data of your you can take and check and then delete your account and switch to some other app
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I wonder if anybody here can explain this: On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts. Despite this my Telegram [messaging-]app discovers my contacts, when friends sign up for Telegram. :confused::confused::confused: No it is not because they have me in their contacts/Telegram, they appear in Telegram with the nickname i have given them in my "Contacts". And please save your "Apple-fanboi-jokes" for a better opportunity. Thanks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
This link, below, gave me an idea you can try: The Lounge[^] Create some new nickname contacts - see if they propagate. Even just slightly change the spelling of a few (they could check/cull for valid contact list entries). If the updates show them perhaps you may wish to write apple a stern letter.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I wonder if anybody here can explain this: On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts. Despite this my Telegram [messaging-]app discovers my contacts, when friends sign up for Telegram. :confused::confused::confused: No it is not because they have me in their contacts/Telegram, they appear in Telegram with the nickname i have given them in my "Contacts". And please save your "Apple-fanboi-jokes" for a better opportunity. Thanks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I would say it has nothing to do wit security, but more privacy... and privacy is what they carve their living from...
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This link, below, gave me an idea you can try: The Lounge[^] Create some new nickname contacts - see if they propagate. Even just slightly change the spelling of a few (they could check/cull for valid contact list entries). If the updates show them perhaps you may wish to write apple a stern letter.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
They probably only allow fan mail (at a premium). There is no stern letter option.
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I wonder if anybody here can explain this: On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts. Despite this my Telegram [messaging-]app discovers my contacts, when friends sign up for Telegram. :confused::confused::confused: No it is not because they have me in their contacts/Telegram, they appear in Telegram with the nickname i have given them in my "Contacts". And please save your "Apple-fanboi-jokes" for a better opportunity. Thanks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Did you check under Settings | Privacy | Contacts whether Telegram is on the list? I see Telegram does have access to my Contacts, even though I can't recall expressly giving it. I've turned off Contacts access now, I'd like to see what happens. Only way to really know would be to uninstall the app, reinstall, expressly forbid Contacts access, and then check in the Settings whether it's got access anyway.
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I wonder if anybody here can explain this: On my iPhone I NEVER let ANY app access my contacts. Despite this my Telegram [messaging-]app discovers my contacts, when friends sign up for Telegram. :confused::confused::confused: No it is not because they have me in their contacts/Telegram, they appear in Telegram with the nickname i have given them in my "Contacts". And please save your "Apple-fanboi-jokes" for a better opportunity. Thanks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Assuming all privacy etc is working, could it be iOS converting a phone number or email into a "friendly" name for the app? Of course, if the app is allowed to "see" the friendly name, then there is some leakage. This should be provable by moving a phone number or email to a new contact. If iOS allows phone-local contacts like android, then try it with one of those.
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No. As explained in my OP. How would their app know what nicknames I have given them?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Just a coincidence. Before he changed it, your boss' name was actually f*** Face.
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Assuming all privacy etc is working, could it be iOS converting a phone number or email into a "friendly" name for the app? Of course, if the app is allowed to "see" the friendly name, then there is some leakage. This should be provable by moving a phone number or email to a new contact. If iOS allows phone-local contacts like android, then try it with one of those.
This is what I was going to suggest. Declining app access to your contacts means it can't just hoover them up wholesale and use them in the app. It can't send everyone in your contacts an email or text asking them to get the app, or transfer all your contacts to a contact list in the app. Sounds like that worked correctly. But iOS does have a "feature" where it will check your contacts for a number and display the contact name instead of the number. So this could be what is happening. Unless the app is doing a screen capture and converting that to text, it still wouldn't have access to that contact information. I'm not sure if this is an API or an integral part of the OS, but it's caused some misunderstandings before IIRC.
