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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by georgyo on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:42AM (#26553843)
There is only three hard parts of e2ee.

1. Making it actually secure. 2. How does a user logging in to multiple locations share the key. 3. Full text search.

It would be hard for discord to do 1 and make everything e2ee. But the casual nature of discord users makes 2 and 3 a deal breaker.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:21AM (#26555343)
"only".
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