Telegram founder Pavel Durov criticizes rival app Signal, calling its privacy mechanisms a "circus trick." 🎪 However, given the history of the relationship between Signal and Telegram, such statements seem more likely to be an attempt to undermine the reputation of a competitor. At the same time, Telegram doesn't offer end-to-end encryption by default and doesn't have group chats with end-to-end encryption at all, calling into question its claims to be a secure messaging app.