A lot of privacy guides suggest avoiding Telegram. I understand that in its default mode there’s no E2EE (and no E2EE for groups at all). If people I know don’t wanttko use Signal, isn’t Telegram the lesser evil given it’s nicer privacy policy (than other popular ones)?
Say I use the FOSS version of it.
So, I have no way of actually verifying the validity of this, but, when I deployed (former US military) we were told that Russia and China had cracked telegram and WhatsApp and that signal was the only authorized encrypted messaging app.
I heard similar things. It just really sucks that WhatsApp collects everything they can besides the content.