• 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.

    •  Flax   ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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      True, unless it’s open source and maybe self hosted.

      Edit: Nevermind, I’m right, I have no confidence in my own intelligence lol. If the key is on the phone and the phone stores the encrypted data to the server, that’ll be secure