DrKLO/Telegram on Hacker News

…proprieatry blob claim when it's true? What blobs? Firebase? I have bad news for you wrt Telegram https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram?tab=readme-ov-file#compila... >Because your favorite messenger is being attacked? Not my favorite…

comment by maqp · 2026-02-11 · in US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

The server IPs are hard-coded into the Telegram client's source: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/d7deedfa33ddfa51c72a5... You know you can just run $ git clone https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram.git && cd Telegram &&…

comment by maqp · 2026-02-11 · in US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

…for the Android Telegram client, but not that much, it's usually 1-2 minor versions away at max. https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram tdesktop one https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop gets updated directly, not sure about the iOS and…

comment by Tiberium · 2024-11-08 · in Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram

…client for Android. I mean just look at this file, it's so huge GitHub gives up rendering it: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... Or this one, it implements EVERYTHING for rendering and interacting with a…

comment by grishka · 2024-08-03 · in "We ran out of columns"

…app store, and also lists the tagged release for the version that is on the app store.[2] [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/releases [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tags

comment by sigmar · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

…lag behind store releases, any sources on that? 0: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds 1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

comment by tssge · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough_transform [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_detection [3] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...

comment by grishka · 2023-06-03 · in Decoding small QR codes by hand (2012)

I see this huge C++ file and I raise you a Java file that's so enormous github refuses to render it: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...

comment by grishka · 2022-11-08 · in CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code

The source for the clients is available. 1. https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram 2. https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS 3. https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift 4. https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by fullstop · 2022-10-25 · in WhatsApp goes down for users globally

…of Telegram on Github: 2022-04-29 [1] Last update of Telegram on Google Play: 2022-06-17 [2] [1]: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master [2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.m...

comment by Andrew_nenakhov · 2022-06-20 · in 700M users and Premium

…review if there are a lot of them (if they decided to implement this sort of abuse policy). 0: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/c1c2ebaf4690fd91c116d...

comment by judge2020 · 2021-12-31 · in How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

…that that Telegram's doing this is top secret undiscoverable magic sauce. It's open source (GPL2): https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/9e740dfd4d2b1ab6b8ed2...

comment by OJFord · 2021-12-31 · in How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

…is not, but there are third party implementations). https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS Plus a few web frontends, I am way too lazy to find them…

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2021-12-08 · in Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

…issues a few years ago.[2] [1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith... [2] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

comment by romseb · 2021-03-29 · in It Doesn't Work

…being sometimes days or weeks behind the releases they upload to the Google Play Store. [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram [2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS [3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS#ch…

comment by circularfoyers · 2021-01-05 · in Telegram publishes users' locations online

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

comment by sorenjan · 2020-06-05 · in Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

…AFAIK there's no audit of Telegram's code base, and it's some of the smelliest code I've ever seen: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... Look at that file size, the lack of comments, the amount of nesting, the…

comment by maqp · 2020-02-18 · in Privacy-focused messenger Signal is ready to go mainstream and take on WhatsApp

The client code is open-source, btw: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

comment by ignoramous · 2019-11-08 · in How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

…content.com/DrKLO/Telegram/e397bd9afdf... and the tons of magic and undocumented numbers in the code: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...

comment by rvnx · 2019-03-14 · in Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage

I'm still unable to unsee https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... :)

comment by V-2 · 2019-02-08 · in Open Source Messenger App for Android – Real-Time Messaging, Voice and Video

…all commits being squashed(see issue[1]). Also their new app (Telegram X) is not open source. [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/1431

comment by cdancette · 2018-04-26 · in Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App

…is just cowboying the whole App, it's not a team project at Telegram. Which explains the above... https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master/TMessagesPr...

comment by dmix · 2018-02-07 · in Telegram Login for Websites

…absolutely is, from a 2 minutes look at their code : - their chat activity is 12000 lines of code : https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... - it looks like they have copy pasted tons of Android library like…

comment by on_and_off · 2018-02-07 · in Telegram Login for Websites

Behold, 12283 lines of very good engineering: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/e9e40cb13ea942b148b25...

comment by veeti · 2018-02-01 · in TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client

Latest commit on the Android version was six months ago: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram And yes, that's the official location of the Android app, linked here: https://telegram.org/apps

comment by r3bl · 2017-03-30 · in Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered

Here: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/e313885ac540c31ea02c8...

comment by ominous · 2017-02-28 · in Telegram for Android is no longer open source

…doesn't start. edit: Found this I'll update source code after next release. @DrKLO on 31/01/2017 https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commit/64e8ec3fbd26a876b76...

comment by ominous · 2017-02-28 · in Telegram for Android is no longer open source

…question: Is it possible to just stop publishing the source of a GPL2 licensed software? [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master

comment by Findus23 · 2017-02-28 · in Telegram for Android is no longer open source

…Lavabit’s free and open source server, Magma, supports these users." Are other modes supported? [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram [2] https://lavabit.com/explain-lavabit.html UPDATE: https://twitter.com/kingladar/status/8225839750677135…

comment by ycmbntrthrwaway · 2017-01-20 · in Lavabit Reloaded

…us, we're not evil" policy [2]. If you haven't switched to Matrix/Riot, do it right away. [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master [2] https://telegram.org/faq#q-who-are-the-people-behind-telegra...

comment by sergiolp · 2016-11-23 · in Secure messaging app Telegram now offers its own anonymous blogging platform

Telegrams clients (and the e2e encryption) are open source. For instance: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram Curious if you know why the crypto is half-baked. Has it been broken? edit: found Signal server, I think:…

comment by eggie · 2016-09-22 · in WhatsApp threatened with legal action in Germany over Facebook data sharing deal

Is the android telegram client not open: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram ? I may be missing something. It seems to me that we could just fork the app and add in any ETE encryption we want. I get that everyone is annoyed at the Telegram…

comment by eggie · 2015-12-11 · in MTProto, the symmetric encryption scheme used in Telegram, is not IND-CCA secure

The Telegram client can just barely be considered Open Source, see the discussion at https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76

comment by toupeira · 2015-12-02 · in Signal Desktop

…the photo[0] but who knows what kind of state will be modified when you send the text first. [0] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/74def22213846b1f90a26...

comment by ones_and_zeros · 2015-12-01 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

…"bugfixes", but that's a personal preference), but seems to be dead. This was all discussed here: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76

comment by drdaeman · 2015-12-01 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

The page you've linked links to https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram for the android client.

comment by kpcyrd · 2015-12-01 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

The commit that introduced this: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commit/a93d2994842ef694442... > Showing 208 changed files with 5,479 additions and 1,841 deletions. It looks like they squash all their commits and just push one big diff…

comment by kpcyrd · 2015-12-01 · in WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links

Good luck auditing this: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/...

comment by mahouse · 2015-10-11 · in Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter

…format uses ambiguous padding, so they have to try all padding lengths when validating a message: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... That loop leaks timing information, as does the "Utilities.arraysEquals"…

comment by sweis · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…he obviously doesn't (want to) understand git. 0: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues 1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76 2: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007

comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…truly open source. They utilize a pre-compiled library for the actual messaging code, as seen here: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/... They would like to have you believe otherwise through their PR efforts, but…

comment by colordrops · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…I opened over a year ago, asking them to use end-to-end encryption by default and for group chats: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/156 Probably because features are more important than security, sigh.

comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…to see a need to export my data. They seem to be ignoring this issue, and have been for months: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/384

comment by someguy1233 · 2015-01-11 · in (Telegram) Why? It's all in the cloud, so you won't lose it

…trust breach, and makes all the fuzzy claims about the app's security absolutely worthless. [0] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/... [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...

comment by ge0rg · 2013-12-16 · in Telegram - secure, free messaging