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  • Artwork@lemmy.worldBanned from communitytoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Telegram is lying to you - here's the proofEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Holy gracious smokes… Why don’t people read… and the call people “liers”? How indifferent and echo-chambered you must be to act as these people who “heroically reveal” already known, proving that they have no idea what they are talking about, sorry?

    The “Secret Chat” encryption has been known for at least a decade and more…

    Secret chats are meant for people who want more security than the average fella. All messages in secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means only you and the recipient can read those messages — nobody else can decipher them, including us here at Telegram. Messages cannot be forwarded from secret chats. You can also order your messages to self-destruct in a set amount of time after they have been read by the recipient. The message will then disappear from both your and your friend’s devices.

    One last difference between secret and ordinary chats in Telegram is that secret chats are not stored in our cloud. You can only access messages in a secret chat from their device of origin.

    Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20141026204847/https://telegram.org/faq#secret-chats [2014-10-26]

    Please… please, dear authors of these “reveals”, as @archipc@lemmy.ml… please consider you being tricked by competitors of Telegram who also “reveal” nonsense just for people like you…

    And please… check your sources… make personal researches… stop believing the first “news” you read…

    Meanwhile, please do indeed reveal some respect and self-confidence, and check:
    - https://core.telegram.org/mtproto#general-description
    - https://core.telegram.org/bug-bounty

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldBanned from communitytoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Some ideas re: age verificationEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There are numerous options to choose from already existing… Yet, some should just consider that the recent “age verification” were initiated for another purpose than a general age verification process. Have you checked out the recent Persona source code exposed?

    Regardless, some civilian approaches to be mentioned is how the verification is handled in Baltic countries, that is Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, for example:

    Smart-ID is the easiest, safest and fastest way to authenticate yourself online, register in e-services and sign documents…
    Smart-ID can be used to log in to e-services, for online banking and for signing documents.

    Source: https://www.smart-id.com/

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    Smart-ID itself has no age restrictions for its users – but age limits have been set by identity providers and depend on the Smart-ID account type and authentication method chosen…

    Creating a Smart-ID account for a minor requires a parent/legal guardian to authenticate their account…

    Don’t just click “continue”: read the instructions on the screen carefully and double check that all the information you enter is correct, and the whole process will be easy and stress-free… The child cannot continue with their registration until we’ve got one parent approval…

    Source

    For the API, for instance:

    # Where can I find users date of birth?

    Birth of date is encoded into personal identity code. Latvian new personal identity code format is exception though. Special birth of date field will be added to Smart-ID certificates in stages and only for Qualified accounts.

    For convinience smart-id-java-client and smart-id-php-client have special function getDateOfBirth… for that. For getting that info directly from certificate see getDateOfBirthCertificateAttribute and getDateOfBirthFromCertificateField.

    Source

    Similar to Latvia, the number of Estonia and Lithuania has the date of infinitely magnificent event as someone’s date of birth, too!

    The ways in which such a system is implemented vary among countries, but in most cases citizens are issued an identification number upon reaching legal age, or when they are born…

    In Estonia, a Personal Identification Code (Estonian: isikukood, abbreviated as IK) is formed on the basis of the sex and date of birth of a person…

    In Lithuania the Personal Code (Lithuanian: asmens kodas) consists of 11 digits, and currently is in the form G YYMMDD NNN C, where G is gender & birth century, YYMMDD is the birthday, NNN is a serial number, C is a checksum digit…
    /* ... */ C = lt_nin_checksum("3840915201");

    Source

    Therefore, there should be an option to verify the age without the personal identification code. And if not, just a personal number got within the age verification scope, transferred within secure government session channel, should be enough. The government, in turn, won’t share such information with untrusted services - access to the API.

    Related: Age verification online (…can be done safely and privately. Here’s how…)