Yeah -- they created a product offering that supports their weird worldview. It's perfectly legit to store end-to-end encrypted data in its encrypted form and

Yeah -- they created a product offering that supports their weird worldview. It's perfectly legit to store end-to-end encrypted data in its encrypted form and then secure the key material in some manner not visible to the cloud service provider. The Telegram folks have tried their darndest to convince us that this isn't really an option, and so therefore they must go insecure-by-default, even though they also pitch themselves as a bastion of secure messaging. It's always rubbed me the wrong way, since their claims are so obviously false. Which makes me assume they either don't know their domain well enough to be trusted to do any end-to-end encryption properly, or they have some hidden agenda. Neither of those make me want to treat any part of the Telegram chat experience as secure.