Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I’m sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn’t offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic “backups” in real time for every citizen
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Why windows 11 silently and automatically sends back to Microsoft servers the decryption key for bitlocker?
Why WhatsApp is asking every fucking month to enable unencrypted “backups” on Google drive?
Users have the convenience of Easy data recovery but also someone else.
Do you have a source for the BitLocker thing? Can’t find anything.
Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I’m sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn’t offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic “backups” in real time for every citizen