Discord's End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video
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Discord announced end-to-end encryption for audio and video, but users are criticizing the company for not prioritizing text encryption for DMs and small servers.
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I agree but I doubt it could happen. They are too big, too popular and thus feds will demand a way to view DMs and group chats because they know that most unstable people will not have good OpSec as recently seen. Discord have always bragged about never losing a message and that includes deleted messages. I would not be surprised if the client is silently doing voice-to-text transcriptions or relying on OS features such as AI to do voice-to-text and uploading it thus allowing one to say they are doing E2EE, but not really. I could envision Microsoft recall being used to negate E2EE.