an article that succinctly conveys to potential users why Telegram is snakeoil and why TextSecure is the real deal
There is no way to convey this with better rhetoric because the proof is in the technical detail, the party that is wrong can just ramp theirs rhetoric up too. If you don't dig into that detail, it just becomes a he said/she said argument that no observers can judge on merit. Those discussion relies on the participants to be knowledgeable, and politely acknowledge when they're out of their depth technically or just plain wrong. But there is nothing to enforce that, see any Hacker News discussion about something that isn't web development or devops.
No we don't. At least not for your goal of:
an article that succinctly conveys to potential users why Telegram is snakeoil and why TextSecure is the real deal
There is no way to convey this with better rhetoric because the proof is in the technical detail, the party that is wrong can just ramp theirs rhetoric up too. If you don't dig into that detail, it just becomes a he said/she said argument that no observers can judge on merit. Those discussion relies on the participants to be knowledgeable, and politely acknowledge when they're out of their depth technically or just plain wrong. But there is nothing to enforce that, see any Hacker News discussion about something that isn't web development or devops.