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“Trust me bro” style hand-rolled encryption.
What encryption? There is no E2EE by default. It's all plaintext.
I’ve been telling people about the lack of standard E2E encryption for years, so don’t interpret this as me defending them, but plaintext suggests that they send it unencrypted over the network, which is not the case. It’s encrypted between the client and the server and supposedly it’s also encrypted at rest. The issue is that Telegram has full access to your data, as well as anyone that they share it with (or that has managed to find their way in). This may include government agencies, employees, etc.