This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?

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    10 months ago

    Messages are stored on the server, not on the device

    Yes, pretty much necessary to provide multidevice support

    end-to-end encryption not enabled by default

    True that and telegram sucks big here, but I donth think e2ee can be enabled in a feasible way for multiple devices.

    uses proprietary encryption, making security audits difficult

    The MTProto isnt open source but its fully documented, there have been security audits on it.

    dubious financial backing

    No. Pavel Durov have always said since starting he paid for telegram’s servers from his pocket, in recent years telegram has started monetisation programs to cover its costs.

    Russian developers

    The founders were born in Russia, but they now have dual citizenship of UAE and France. If you are talking about politically questionable, even signal have been accused of having backdoors for CIA.