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Telegram’s peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
(techcrunch.com)
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You should probably also update the "leaks likely" part with a history of encryption related leaks from telegram over 10 years.
It's not enabled by default because people expect their chat history to not get wiped every time they finish talking, in most cases.
I think it was clear from context that "accidental leaks" meant forgetting to enable e2ee, thereby exposing the conversation directly to Telegram, with not even the homebrew encryption protecting it.
Obviously, there is no recorded history of every time anyone has made that mistake, but your gibe about it does at least confirm that you're arguing in bad faith, which makes this easier: Goodbye.
If you really mean that, the leak resulting from such a mistake will only happen if you missed the fact that your chat history is saved after a talk (even though it's right there just like any other history), then enough time passed for your friend to change views on you and leak whatever they had saved (since you didn't remove that part of chat history before that happened).
I'm sure that such a scenario is insanely unlikely. A much more likely scenario would be for you to not know that a friend of yours already changed their views and making records of all end to end encrypted content you make together by simple means, like another phone.
I like when people hate questionable stuff. But I hate when they do it for silly or made up reasons.