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I do have a question though, as a relative amateur. It’s more on a sociological level.

Suppose you are in an organization, and it needs to figure our whether an employee was saying a Bad Thing such as giving out company secrets or cursing people out “off the record”.

Yes, even with end to end encryption, Facebook and others can still let you prove the other person sent the messages when you need. The question is whether that is a good thing:

https://facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1165699260192280

My personal feeling is yes, yes it is. I make a more extensive analysis here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030085




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