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		throw0101a 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brits would quite like their private messages to s... 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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inigyou 12 days ago [–]

For instance WhatsApp uploads your unencrypted message history to Google Cloud once a week.

fsflover 11 days ago | [–]

Or iPhone storing all previous unencrypted notifications including Signal messages, if you didn't switch it off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716490

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