{"id":1015918,"date":"2026-06-20T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015918"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:34:40","slug":"iit-madras-director-warns-against-fake-paper-leak-claims-demonstrates-how-telegram-messages-can-be-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/iit-madras-director-warns-against-fake-paper-leak-claims-demonstrates-how-telegram-messages-can-be-manipulated\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Madras Director warns against fake \u2018paper leak\u2019 claims, demonstrates how Telegram messages can be manipulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras and a member of the National Security Advisory Board, has cautioned students and the public against blindly trusting alleged \u201cpaper leak\u201d screenshots and documents circulating on Telegram, highlighting a potential vulnerability that can be exploited to create misleading evidence. <\/p>\n<p>During a live demonstration, Prof. Kamakoti showed how a PDF file shared on Telegram at 3:39 PM could later be replaced with an entirely different document while still displaying the original timestamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras and a member of the National Security Advisory Board, has cautioned students and the public against blindly trusting alleged \u201cpaper leak\u201d screenshots and documents circulating on Telegram, highlighting a potential vulnerability that can be exploited to create misleading evidence. During a live demonstration, Prof. Kamakoti showed how a PDF file shared on Telegram at 3:39 PM could later be replaced with an entirely different document while still displaying the original timestamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015929,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015918\/revisions\/1015929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}