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by rampant_ai 2207 days ago
> isn't the whole point of e2e encryption that you don't have to trust the intermediate infrastructure

If the client app is open source. There's no way to know FB isn't just copying your keys or doing something else nasty. That whole spiel on their site about how E2EE protects you/makes the world a better place/yada yada is completely moot since they use a closed-source client.