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Without E2E, the cloud providers are legally required to hand over your private data, often without a warrant. They often also sell your data to law enforcemen
by hedora 3y ago
Without E2E, the cloud providers are legally required to hand over your private data, often without a warrant.
They often also sell your data to law enforcement.
With E2E, they cannot be legally compelled to do those things, and doing so voluntarily without disclosing it would likely be illegal.
So, E2E has legal benefits for the end user, in addition to some technical benefits.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoAccording to ChatGPT 4, US-based cloud providers are not necessarily legally required to inform or disclose sharing your data with or selling your data to the US government.
- akira2501 3y agoe2e, without root, leaves me completely exposed to key escrows or just straight up key exfiltration. It feels like a paper victory.
- fragmede 3y agoRun a second device with the cell modem disabled or without one, and have it access the Internet via WiFi or bluetooth, to reduce the attack surface.
- blitzar 3y agoWith E2E, the cloud providers are legally required to hand over your private data, often without a warrant. What they have to hand over is scrambled nonsense, but they still have to hand it over.