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The card was edited to reflect the broader scope of the issue at hand.

Бекхан Mar 5, 2021

You have completely changed the meaning of the card. What's the point of your site if you edit the text in your own way? All these 600 likes were put in support of our idea, and not for the sake of your meaningless and contradictory description.

Here is the original text that has been modified:

Double Bottom for Telegram

Dear Pavel Durov,

We have developed a solution for the Telegram client that allows you to hide accounts and open them only through a unique password code (see attached video). There are no traces of the presence of hidden accounts. It is impossible to find out if there are hidden accounts in the messenger and how many are there. The solution is called "Double Bottom". All nuances are thought out to the smallest detail, and the Telegram client itself has not changed in terms of the interface and user experience. Almost no modifications are required from the Telegram team. "Double bottom" is made completely "turnkey", you just need to accept our "Pull Request" in your repository. You can install our build using TestFlight for the review, and if you don't have an iOS device at hand, then watch the video. The source code of the build is available on GitHub.

With best regards, Bekhan Gendargenoevsky / Postuf team.

Full letter (in Russian)
http://postuf.com/postufgram

Website
https://postufgram.com/

Community
https://t.me/postufgram

Source code
https://github.com/Postuf/Telegram-iOS-Double-Bottom-Postufgram

Design
https://www.figma.com/file/3s7Wh6VrNuMvAS5w0ndYdw/

А. Книгар Mar 6, 2021

Suggestion "Separate passcode lock for specific chats or
Archive" has no relation to the idea of "Double bottom". These are
completely different ideas.

The Suggestion should be based on the separation of Telegram accounts or hide "the double bottom" with server-side support, because the bystander may have knowledge of the account holder's phone number.

Akram Mar 6, 2021

Telegram support is clearly lying when they say they want to reflect our idea more clearly.

You have completely changed our message and misled people.
"Double bottom" allows you to use your biometric data, and in this case, your "theory" is complete nonsense.

I ask you to return the previous version of the letter and not to embarrass yourself in front of people.

PJ Mar 9, 2021

Admin Dog

On "POTENTIAL ISSUE": you make a valid point in regard to biometric unlock, however, this issue can be EASILY prevented by making biometric data unlock only the "first bottom".

So, biometric unlock never has to be disabled: to access full chat list one MUST enter a secret PIN code. If one uses fingerprint-unlock, only first bottom will open and "hidden" chats will remain hidden.

Yura Mocherniuk Mar 28, 2021

In my opinion, it would be safer, simpler and faster to delete Telegram from your device in critical situations. Providing that you have 2FA enabled it won't be easy to get access to your cloud chats' data. Of course all secret chats will be lost in such case, but that's the whole point of secret chats: they are exceptionally secure and evanescent. I reckon the second point makes them even more secure than Signal chats.

А. Книгар Mar 28, 2021

Yura Mocherniuk

An innocent bystander may have knowledge of the account holder's phone number and can force person to enter to the Telegram. Removing the application does not solve the problem at all, and only a *double bottom* will help solve it.

Snep Apr 8, 2021

А. Книгар

How could an innocent bystander force anyone to sign into their Telegram account in any occasion? Also, if there is no app on the phone, how could, say, police know that that person used Telegram for their communications?

А. Книгар Apr 8, 2021

Snep

> How could an innocent bystander force anyone to sign into their Telegram account in any occasion?

By threats of physical harm, which has already been done by bandits and dishonest police officers

> Also, if there is no app on the phone, how could, say, police know that that person used Telegram for their communications?

Via Telegram's access restore procedure or with the logs of a mobile operator.

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