Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoIf unofficial app can MITM registration, it can the same way MITM login later.
doesn’t require a client A side note, JavaScript app in the browser is as much an app as Java/Kotlin on Android. But I know websites and web-based applications are now so mixed together it sometimes can confuse me too.
And browser version of Telegram does not allow registering new accounts also.
atkdef@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Compared to login, MITM on registration means the culprit knows the IP address and the time of the registration, which is usually significant on claiming the account back.
I don’t have a spare number to test, but I’m pretty sure entering a phone number in the web sends SMS. Do you have concrete evidence that it really doesn’t work?
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Unfortunetly not, I must test it also.