Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption
Pavel Durov is the guy who started vk.com which stores  passwords in plain text: <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/vk-com-data-breach.html" rel="nofollow">https://thehackernews.com/2016/06/vk-com-data-breach.html</a>
He has no clue about security. Whatever he claims, I would never use Telegram.