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I agree with the need for the research in the area. they are a big team and the yearly bug they identify in messenger services benefit the public.

I lament the dissemination by that group, always through a PR wave trying to place shocking headlines amplified by the school PR. that was the same in their past discoveries.

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You've accused the researchers twice now of exaggerating the importance of the vulnerabilities they found. This comment is almost entirely unresponsive to the comment you're replying to, which states:

> You can, according to the paper, send a classic Threema protocol user a message that, if repeated or forwarded, allows someone else to log in as them. That's a distinctively weird and bad problem for a protocol to have.

Can you be precise about what specific claims they made and how the claims were deceptive?

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