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derwikitoday at 1:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe I’m naive: I can believe the e2e encryption happens, but it takes a lot of faith to believe there’s no front-end telemetry that would render that ineffective.


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throw0101atoday at 2:05 PM

Define "ineffective". Traffic analysis is a thing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis

but message E2EE is generally not designed to solve that. Other layers of the stack would probably have to get involved.

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