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This is why you use end to end encrypted communications.

• janalsncm 18d ago
  Switching to end to end encrypted chat is a technical solution to what is ultimately a social/political problem. It doesn’t work: https://www.fire.org/cases/florida-international-university-police-arrest-student-over-jokes-whatsapp https://www.fire.org/cases/florida-international-university-...
• skeledrew 18d ago
  Problem is those services aren't very user friendly. After all most users want to maintain history, recover their account if they forget their password, and other things not exactly compatible with highly secure communications.
  • tsmr 16d ago
    You're absolutely right. I currently develop twonly, an open-source alternative to Snapchat, where I encountered exactly these kinds of problems, such as a passwordless recovery. I came up with the following solution, happy to hear feedback :) https://twonly.eu/en/blog/2026-passwordless-backup.html https://twonly.eu/en/blog/2026-passwordless-backup.html
• pikrzyszto 18d ago
  If you do not control the application that sends messages, the application can always do E2E, only to spy on the messages on the end devices and snitch if necessary... We need E2E + no "bonus features", and to ensure both hold you need to review the code.
  • zzril 18d ago
    It's called "Matrix".
• rurban 17d ago
  With the 2nd end being duplicated to the NSA? They got their own keys now. Hardly better