To me, the overarching topic here is trust. Who do you trust with you private stuff?

On the left corner, Whatsapp. Owned by a company who has been caught red-handed with plenty of shady stuff. From accepting money to manipulate democracies, to exploiting the human brain (young and old) to catapult their product FB is a live testament of what being a greedy, evil corporation really means.

On right corner, Telegram. As far as I know, they have been caught in zero shady enterprises. Their discourse seem a bit cocky and preachy, but honestly I couldn't agree more with their principles and their responses to criticism seem logic.

My choice is Telegram, thank you very much!

There is still Signal, but less than a quarter of my contacts are there. To me it smells a bit of G+... great idea and features, but low adoption which makes the product irrelevant.

> "Signal has default end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp has default end-to-end encryption. Telegram does not."

By default, WhatsApp stores everything unencrypted (encrypted with third party keys) at third party servers, Google’s and Apple’s servers.

By default, Telegram stores everything unencrypted (encrypted with Telegram’s keys) at Telegram’s own servers.

By default, Signal stores everything encrypted at your device with your own keys.