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		hprotagonist on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kill Instant Messaging At this point the primary advantages of IM is that it is possible to use securely. Email just isn’t.

dheera on June 10, 2019 [–]

They aren't that different for most people. Both Gmail and Slack are

* NOT end-to-end encryption

* encrypted from server to client

* full logs hosted on server

They're essentially equally secure.

hprotagonist on June 10, 2019 | [–]

I was thinking more along the lines of signal/imessage/whatsapp/other e2e messaging applications.

contra email: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/e-mail_vulner...

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