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by Andrew_nenakhov 847 days ago
This is how Constantinople fell to the Ottomans: they had very high hard to penetrate walls, but forgot to lock one gate. *

Replace the walls with highly secure encryption e2e algorithm, and the gate with easily accessible backup, and you'll see why things like this are not out of scope.

* - this story is disputed by some historians