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The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda (www.techradar.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22814154

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

While storage is my main concern (my VPS is very limited in this regard), there is also the fact that you can very well end up with nasty materials stored on your server without a convenient way to delete it. Even if you don't let strangers have accounts on your server.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    My uploads folder is mounted with noexec. It’s easy to set your storage usage & upload quotas in Prosody or Ejabberd.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was talking about Matrix - specifically the fact that it stores every message and piece of media on every participating server, unlike XMPP. Indeed not had such a problem on XMPP.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yes, the eventual consistency model works more like a blockchain. Sliding windows are only hiding this fundamental flaw of data usage. It has an advantage against censorship, but it isn’t worth it & chat is better treated as ephemeral than permanent (look at how much info is lost behind proprietary Discord communities).

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