Tdesktop: Privacy Issue: Sender's profile is clickable on forwarded messages on public groups

Created on 10 Apr 2016  路  6Comments  路  Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Steps to reproduce

  1. Forwarding message to people
  2. Clicking on the sender's profile
  3. Bam.

    Expected behaviour

Link to sender's profile shouldn't be clickable. It's a massive privacy issue.

Actual behaviour

The link to the sender's profile was clickable.

Configuration

Operating system: Ubuntu 15.10

Version of Telegram Desktop: 0.9.33

Logs

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Nope :3

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Most helpful comment

Erm, why should it not be linked? If you forward a message, it also says the sender. That is the point of forwarding compared to copy&pasting!

The 'profile' just shows a page with their name and online status which is available for everyone any time. Just search for the nickname and click on it.

Enlighten me if I misunderstood your issue. But the way I understand it, this issue is expected behaviour and should be closed.

All 6 comments

@koyuawsmbrtn Please try other official Telegram apps and confirm that this is an issue of Telegram Desktop, not the way it works everywhere. https://web.telegram.org for example.

Why it should be like this? Just copy and paste if you need to hide origin.
Also, IMO it's also API issue, maybe it can _(pls no)_ have flag for hiding origin for Forwarding messages.

Yep, it's everywhere. Not only Telegram Desktop. I never knew where I should post it, so I did it here. It's a general issue.

Erm, why should it not be linked? If you forward a message, it also says the sender. That is the point of forwarding compared to copy&pasting!

The 'profile' just shows a page with their name and online status which is available for everyone any time. Just search for the nickname and click on it.

Enlighten me if I misunderstood your issue. But the way I understand it, this issue is expected behaviour and should be closed.

Use "Plus Messenger"(An unofficial Telegram version) "Forward without Quoting" or Telegram bots "@binam_bot ,@hazf_bot " which hides the sender of message

now telegram has option - hide link to user if his message forwarded - see Settings->privacy

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