> Personally I don't trust telegram because of their funding source. You could say the same for Signal (before Signal Foundation was created this year) or Wire

> Personally I don't trust telegram because of their funding source. You could say the same for Signal (before Signal Foundation was created this year) or Wire (created by the people who created Skype) too. > Lastly, to my knowledge, end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default, neither for private messaging or groups. That's just a no-go for any chat application for me. The “secret chats” are always end-to-end encrypted. The normal chats are encrypted only in transit and not end-to-end. But secret chats are also tied to a single device (currently only phones), unlike Wire, which offers end-to-end encryption and synchronized conversations across devices.