Comment on Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

• renard_roux@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not necessarily. If you trust the code running on your device then there is no backdoor they could install on a server that would break e2ee. They would have to backdoor the client where the keys are.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True, unless it’s open source and maybe self hosted

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