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Comment by pxc

6 hours ago

They make the app that stores the plaintext at each end... they don't need to decrypt your messages across the wire to read them.

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thecaspercraft  5 hours ago

Ah I understand now, thank you. So they can actually read it just not in transit but from the app, isn't that a security violation?

  • cadamsdotcom  4 hours ago

    A what violation?

    I kid. But only sorta.

    • thecaspercraft  1 hour ago

      They advertise e2e as something that is to secure your messages and no one can read it including them, just got surprised when I realized they can view all the messages before transit, I never even thought that that they can do that before encryption

  • krageon  3 hours ago

    All e2e encrypted apps can do this. It's the price you pay for a completely closed ecosystem that coddles you at every turn because you're too much of a little bean to know what real security is.

    Edit: this isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at how google and apple treat you