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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by themihai on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:49AM (#12548637)
Well if you trust Google you don't need on-disk encryption in the first place. SSL already solved the transport issue.
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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by themihai on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:44PM (#12550475)
My point that you have no control over the data once you send it to Google. You don't even know if they even encrypt it on their disk/server anyway.
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