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by rhn_mk1 1980 days ago
Does wanting any of this automatically mean wanting e2e is wrong or invalid?
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No, but it's automatically the right tradeoff for everyone.

Security measures are always a tradeoff between convenience and security. Not everyone's tradeoffs work out evenly. Sometimes backups are a more important risk to mitigate than government surveillance.

> it's automatically the right tradeoff for everyone

That can be only true if there is no tradeoff. A tradeoff by definition is a situation where the optimum depends on individual preferences.