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Almondsetatyesterday at 3:34 PM1 replyview on HN

People keep talking about e2ee as if it was some brain-to-brain encoding that truly allowed only the recipient person to decrypt the message


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dijityesterday at 3:38 PM

because it used to be that the ends and the middlemen were different entities.

In the universe where they are the same entity (walled-gardens) there is only the middleman.

In such cases you either trust them or you don’t, anything more is not required because they can compromise their own endpoints in a way you can not detect.