Telegram leaks your IP address to anyone in your contacts during a call. And a researcher has created a tool to easily exploit this.
#Telegram says this is expected behavior, so there's nothing to fix or change.
That's why our top WhatsApp alternatives are #Signal and #Threema:
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A security researcher has created a tool that allows someone to find out the IP address of a Telegram contact just by calling them.























