It's amazing how Telegram has managed to get journalists to write about it this way, as though all its messaging has end-to-end encryption. In fact, this is true only for "secret chats," which must be activated manually and are therefore a tiny fraction of Telegram's traffic.
@kevinrothrock I just tell anyone that says to me they've switched from WhatsApp to Telegram, because of privacy concerns, that I'm a digital investigator and that about 40% of my findings are thanks to Telegram being so, so easy to get data from. The sheer amount of people discussing illegal stuff on public channels, wow.
@derpoltergeist @kevinrothrock Security not through obscurity, but marketing