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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by scarmig on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:09PM (#21102248)
The idea that using a webmail provider's draft feature provides security might have been true a long time ago--I don't know--but it's really stupid to think it does so nowadays.
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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by nine_k on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:38PM (#21102413)
It was security through obscurity. Not very reliable against an attack, but very unlikely to attract an attack.
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