On: Building end-to-end security for Messenger

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Enabling E2EE has historically required usability tradeoffs (no multi-device, no backups, chat transcripts are stored on device only, etc). It took them this long to make it seamless.

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But WhatsApp has had it for a while, no? Or at least I think it's a solved problem looking at both WhatsApp and iMessage

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Yah, I'm constantly amazed by software that can restore my message history after I lose my private key.

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Maybe read the papers then?

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I promise, tomorrow when I have a little time, I will venture into the labyrinth and see what is to be learned.