3) Leaving aside the lack of voice support in Telegram and considering only messaging: Both SCIMP (Silent Circle) and TextSecure/Axolotl (WhisperSystems) are be

3) Leaving aside the lack of voice support in Telegram and considering only messaging: Both SCIMP (Silent Circle) and TextSecure/Axolotl (WhisperSystems) are better protocols than MTProto (Telegram). 4) You order a privacy tool from Amazon, and you're put on a list. You emit the kind of encrypted traffic that 99% of internet users don't, you also get put on a list. In most cases, there's no difference. I suppose if your threat model requires you physically appear not to care about privacy then it matters. Like maybe you work in a sensitive position and you don't want anyone to think you might exfiltrate data, so you only carry the work provisioned device which logs everything you do.