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by neilalexander 1367 days ago
Meta own the proprietary code running at either end of the encrypted pipe. Of course they can.
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omgomgomgomg 1367 days ago
They can decrypt if someone enables backups, so I see no reason they could not read them indeed.

Signal might be the only app unable to read, but even that, I would not trust.

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marcus0x62 1367 days ago
How would you propose Signal -- or any app for that matter that provides end to end encryption -- encrypt the messages in the first place if they don't have access to the plaintext at some point?
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