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Telegram offers "secret chats". Is it possible that a bot opens a secret chat and sends a message? I could not find any method or parameter for this function.
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Not exactly a private bot With Telegram bots are not private. Everybody can find them. The difference is that a certain communication channel with the bot can be made private. This is a group with the bot that you and the bot are members of.
All messages in secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means only you and the recipient can read those messages — nobody else can decipher them, including us here at Telegram (more on this here). On top of this, Messages cannot be forwarded from secret chats.
Fake Telegram Messenger apps are currently hacking devices, including PCs, with a Windows-based malware that can put your information at risk as it evades the installed anti-virus systems, cyber-security researchers have warned.
Bots talking to each other could potentially get stuck in unwelcome loops. To avoid this, we decided that bots will not be able to see messages from other bots regardless of mode.
Telegram's Bot API does not support secret chats at the moment. You can read the documentation, but a short explanation is: end-to-end encryption is used in secret chats which is tricky to implement for bots and requires additional work. There's no word on when it'll be supported, if ever.
While researching one such malware scheme, Forcepoint accidentally discovered that Telegram chats that include bots have reduced security. The researchers probed a sample of remote management malware dubbed GoodSender and identified the mechanism within the code that awaited commands from a Telegram bot.
The contents of a secret chat can only be deciphered by the sender and the recipient. As a result, a secret chat can only be viewed on the device where it was started and logging out of Telegram on that device will delete the chat.
Telegram chats aren’t end-to-end encrypted in default messaging mode. In Telegram, all chat boxes don’t use end-to-end encryption like WhatsApp. But, If you want a fully encrypted method for your chat. Then you can change it to the secret chat mode in it.
Telegram's Bot API does not support secret chats at the moment. You can read the documentation, but a short explanation is: end-to-end encryption is used in secret chats which is tricky to implement for bots and requires additional work.
There's no word on when it'll be supported, if ever. At any rate, Telegram Bots are generally meant as a useful aid or for fun, not for sensitive things like financial transactions.
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