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Email-based instant messaging for Android.
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verification checkmark is unreliable #3155

Closed dkg closed 2 months ago

dkg commented 2 months ago

I recently changed the displayname for my delta account to "dkg ✅✓✔☑".

As a result, when a contact using DeltaChat android 1.46.5 looks to see whether i'm verified (i am, on their system), they see this:

checkmarks-android

If i wasn't verified, they would see the same thing, but the last checkmark would be missing.

I don't think we can expect users to distinguish between the different types of checkmarks, which means that a user can't defend themselves against someone putting a checkmark in their username to make the recipient think that they're verified.

(this is the same as https://github.com/deltachat/interface/issues/71 but for android)

r10s commented 2 months ago

thanks for bringing that up, discussion takes place in the other issue at https://github.com/deltachat/interface/issues/71 ; closing this issue here as there is no concrete actionable item for android currently