A list poster reported this story today:
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/
For a view from the co-father of the Internet, see this recent article:
Desirable Properties of Internet Identifiers
Vinton G. Cerf
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ic/2017/06/mic2017060063.html
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