According to John McAfee, Telegram was compromised a long time ago. He warned that the privacy promised by encrypted apps like ProtonMail and Signal (Telegram) is a dangerous illusion, as governments can easily hack into smartphones and other devices.

These are the arguments John McAfee made:

1. Encryption was designed 35 years ago to prevent a man-in-the-middle attack. We don't need them.

2. Your fucking smartphone is the surveillance device preferred by every government on the fucking planet.

3. Do you know how easy it is to plant malware? Go on Pornhub. If you’ve been on Pornhub then someone is now listening to you. All you have to do is do a drive-by on a website and it sets the download unauthorized applications flag.

After the first click [then] you now have malware that is doing two things: watching your inputs before they are encrypted, and transmitting them, and reading the outputs after they are decrypted.”

He concluded: “Encryption is a worthless piece of shit old technology.”