Bait-and-switch topic in the opening paragraph. Insists that what people ask for, e2e chat, isn’t what they actually want or should want.
The majority of telegram users want convenient messaging, group chats, news channels and voice group calls. Think slack with a fast native app.
Security measures are always a tradeoff between convenience and security. Not everyone's tradeoffs work out evenly. Sometimes backups are a more important risk to mitigate than government surveillance.
That can be only true if there is no tradeoff. A tradeoff by definition is a situation where the optimum depends on individual preferences.
I love getting glimpses of how other people use certain apps. I can't imagine _wanting_ news in my messaging app - that's what my news app is for! Very valuable reminder that our own perspective is not always widespread.
Until this happened https://instantview.telegram.org/
Instant View is so fast (and private) i'm never reading articles any other way.
It is a marketing piece, and I bristle at it raising issues I like to take seriously, e2e you can't misuse, and moving the goalposts to tout its more limited capabilities and defaults: pair-only(?) secret chats, and not on by default.
Telegram's cryptography and theater of justifications have been suspect from the start, so I read any advice coming from them about security with two raised eyebrows.
See also: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug [Filippo's] Ever Seen
https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cry...