‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO.<p>Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented.<p>My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally just use one time keys and xor everything. Can do it with pen and paper.<p>Signal might be safe, but I think it's a honeypot.