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[–] catalog3115 140 points 4 months ago (43 children)

E2EE is not supposed to protect if device get compromised.

[–] RealFknNito -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Plaintext should never be used in any application that deals with security, ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Oh no, tell that to SSH.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It doesn't use plain text. It is end to end encrypted but that isn't what this "issue" is

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 4 months ago

unless you're reading ciphertext yourself, this doesn't make sense

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