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Fediverse privacy nightmare?
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This is sadly a text written with much confidence about something they understand very little about. Especially the part about the GDPR is IANAL completely wrong.
Yes, DMs over AP are not secure. That's why there is the big banner above it in nearly every AP implementation. The rest is pretty much FUD.
Yes.
Not by design, but instances can misbehave.
Private is misleading here: for messaging to be private, no third party should be able to read the messages. In practice, this usually requires end-to-end encryption.
@cnx
I have not checked each and every translation on the Fediverse, but maybe this is just a problem of Direct Message vs Private Message.
@spiritedaway