Telegram is known as a privacy-focused secure messaging app because it markets itself that way. However, it is often criticized by security experts, privacy advocates, and people with common sense who can understand why its claims about being privacy-friendly don't make sense. In this brief article, I'll show you all
it is not hosted in the US or a country affiliated with the US, which makes it infinitely more secure from the point of view of sovereign risk
The Telegram servers are in Miami, Amsterdam, and Singapore, so some data is still stored in the U.S.
In any case, it wouldn’t be any better to have data stored in a country like China or Russia.
Chinese and Russian authorities can’t steal me from my home and imprison and torture me for the rest of my life
No, but they do that to plenty of their own citizens.
Better something from a non-authoritarian country that doesn’t also happen to be in the Five Eyes intelligence network.