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A comment on Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal. Parent comment

Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by yutah on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:39AM (#8237390)
Google would not give up the ability to see email content... maybe they would analyze them locally on your phone instead of on a remote server (that might even save them from buying a few server too)
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by magicalist on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:11PM (#8238416)
This is part of End-To-End[1]. There's no way for their code to see the email contents, even locally in the browser. That's the whole point, in fact.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by yutah on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:29PM (#8238530)
If you can see your emails on your Android device and Google is admin on your device, why do you say that it is impossible for them to read your emails? I don't mean that they could read them in the cloud but if they can read them locally on your Android device and for example they could send a message back to Google saying "I think this guy should get ads for a new router".... but of course they could do much worst (they could send whole messages back for example).
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by 8475693 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:37PM (#8238916)
End-to-end is a browser extension that doesn't work on Android.
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by yutah on Sunday August 31, 2014 @04:56PM (#8250354)
that is probably because end-to-end is not fully implemented yet...
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by blueking on Thursday August 28, 2014 @04:44PM (#8239596)
Android was designed to leak as much information about the user as possible all the time, even to third parties. Spy satellites have less invasive software.
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Re:Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal by sp332 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:23PM (#8238489)
But isn't keyword-based advertising their only revenue source from non-"Apps for Business" accounts?
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