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MTProto 2 has not been cracked. MTProto 1 had a weakness and Telegram addressed it. That was many years ago. I'm not aware that MTProto 2 has ever been cracked in all these years. Telegram's unwillingness to cooperate with governments is an additional security layer.
What's important is that it hasn't been confirmed good by actual normal cryptographers. It's science, not school debates.
No person ever instructed in security would say something this childishly asinine!
Why not?
I dunno. It's just not.
Shows like "we have a reward to crack it, nobody's done this, so we're very cool" are not sufficient.
In my OP, I was merely referring to how FB Messenger and Telegram functions the same.
Speaking to the protocol used for encryption is a moot point… because even if MTProto 2 was better, it’s still not enabled by default in both messengers.