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daft_pinktoday at 11:57 AM0 repliesview on HN

I don’t agree with this. While, it may be true that E2E carries risks of government surveillance.

E2E makes it less likely that your information will get hacked and reduces the risk that employees will access your information.

The reality is that these security claims are generally subject to internal audit and would need company wide collusion and the risk of a whistleblower or disgruntled former employee if they were violated provides some level of protection that a large tech company offering of e2e doesn’t mean some level of benefit from the user compared to perfect encryption security.