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by TiredOfLife 340 days ago
What do you think ssl does?
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Not that. SSL is just transport-layer encryption, once the information is on the server it's plaintext.

Everything uses SSL or, more accurately, TLS. Very few things are E2EE. Consider Signal - is Signal equivalent to Whatsapp because Whatsapp using TLS? Of course not.

If you have data in plaintext on a server, you should always assume that data lives forever. You might be wrong sometimes, rarely. But usually it does live forever. Most delete buttons don't even actually delete anything.