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Comment by derwiki | original | Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
[−]derwiki · 2026-08-30 Sun 13:46 UTC · link
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.
[−]throw0101a · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:05 UTC · link
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.