[0xy]

Absolutely, it can be encrypted all they want and it's totally irrelevant given all the plaintext chats get stored straight in Google Drive (if you didn't, your conversation partners did!).

Then for some reason WhatsApp has far more critical no-click or 1-click exploits than Telegram, which has 30 global employees? Huh? There's several thousand working on WhatsApp. Telegram has more features, too. WhatsApp has less surface area, more employees, more exploits.

[penr0se]

Maybe it's just a matter of how much effort people put into finding exploits on the two apps. If WhatsApp has many more (actual) users than Telegram, researching exploits on WhatsApp is more worth researching on WhatsApp than Telegram

A bit like how there's much more malware for Windows than there is for Linux

[NateEag]

Several thousand employees means several thousand chances per working day to create a security breach.

I suspect that smaller teams are, on average, more likely than larger ones to write secure software.

[dotcoma]

It’s a feature, not a bug.