<i>despite [Telegram&#x27;s] good-enough track record</i><p>You may have missed parts of their track record; part of the problem is that Telegram tends to hide these types of things in its past:<p>&quot;Telegram protocol defeated. Authors are going to modify crypto-algorithm&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6948742" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6948742</a>