> Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct.
How is Joe Average supposed to understand that?
Adding to that, the secret chat encryption has always been Weird (capital W) and in one of the previous generations the server could actually MITM it. Trivially.
That's an interesting question. I don't know. Maybe he would understand it as "messages that are hard to read for NSA".
To be honest, I don't understand your criticism. Surely people can put a video on their website about E2E, about privacy, integrity and authenticity. Maybe put an honest comparison with other messengers. But I'd only expect this kind of openness from a nonprofit organization.
Signal showed us that is possible to have E2E encrypted messaging, why don't they provide it, but with better UI/UX?
If Telegram doesn't read messages and doesn't provide access for 3rd parties(governments, etc.), It should provide E2E everywhere by default.
Telegram offers server side text search
https://matrix-org.github.io/gsoc/#/projects?project=impleme...