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dheera on June 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kill Instant Messaging

They aren't that different for most people. Both Gmail and Slack are

* NOT end-to-end encryption

* encrypted from server to client

* full logs hosted on server

They're essentially equally secure.

hprotagonist on June 10, 2019 [–]

I was thinking more along the lines of signal/imessage/whatsapp/other e2e messaging applications.

contra email: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/e-mail_vulner...

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