{"id":176600,"date":"2021-02-12T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/psa-update-telegram-on-mac-to-ensure-self-destructing-files-actually-get-deleted\/"},"modified":"2021-02-12T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:35:04","slug":"psa-update-telegram-on-mac-to-ensure-self-destructing-files-actually-get-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/psa-update-telegram-on-mac-to-ensure-self-destructing-files-actually-get-deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"#PSA: Update Telegram on Mac to ensure self-destructing files actually get deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#PSA: Update Telegram on Mac to ensure self-destructing files actually get deleted<\/strong>”
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\n If you use Telegram on Mac, you should upgrade to its latest version (7.4) as the company fixed two critical bugs that could affect your privacy. These vulnerabilities included storing self-destructing messages locally even after they are deleted and saving the app<\/a>\u2019s passcode in plaintext.<\/p>\n

Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra<\/a> found these bugs in Telegram\u2019s stable macOS client (version 7.3) and reported them to the firm in December. Telegram patched them in the latest release<\/a> of the app that was rolled out in January.<\/p>\n

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Telegram allows you to send self-destructing messages in a secret chat. Ideally, the app should delete text, image, audio, or video that you sent after the specified time in this mode. However, Mishra found that because of a bug, media<\/a> files were still present in the local system of the receiver, even after they were deleted from the desktop client. To be clear, the file is stored on both ends if the sender and receiver are using the macOS app.<\/p>\n