It's this kind of extreme paranoia that taints the entire world of populist secure messaging products, which actively drives me straight in the other direction.

I'm not a state target. But I do use Telegram's Secret Chats for things like discussing how great a trip into the woods on psychedelics can be. That's a great compromise, for me, and most others who use the platform. If you're a state target or you entertain such ideas as state actors trying to get your cat photos, please use another platform.

But there's zero need for this kind of mud-slinging that goes on, all the time, within the world of secure messaging products and platforms. The guy behind GrapheneOS does it, Moxie does it, the entire Signal fanbase does it, even going so far as to apologize for when a piece of their beloved product goes closed source for a year so Moxie can insert some terrible crypto coin he's a major investor of.