Marketing. Sadly, one of the conclusions you can draw from Telegram is that a security business is almost better off with no security. Pavel Durov says that T

Marketing. Sadly, one of the conclusions you can draw from Telegram is that a security business is almost better off with no security. Pavel Durov says that Telegram is "heavily" encrypted over and over again, journalists who don't know better take that at face value and encode it into every headline ("Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, ..."), and meanwhile since there is no encryption there is no risk of anyone finding or publishing vulnerabilities in it. Since cryptography already seems unreal to most people (and is always just a matter of getting the smart IT guy to 'crack' it on television), everyone's already predisposed to thinking that security = Switzerland. Unless there's a major change, the charlatans will win every time.