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		swiley on Aug 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency ... E2EE is meaningless with a closed client downloaded by individuals from the service provider.

Ansil849 on Aug 17, 2021 [–]

If the option is "not use any closed-source E2EE video conferencing platform because of ideological purity" or "conferencing platform which promises E2EE and has SLAs and legal contracts backing these claims with the client", for practical purposes the latter wins.

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