Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Keep the data but encrypted. Let users send links that contain the pki info to decrypt the messages. Have that pki info generated client side.

    Discord would only need to shuffle data, provide authentication, and provide the web app data down to the client. But every bit of user shared and generated content would be encrypted to them.

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        2 months ago

        If the the pki is generated by users client side by a secret discord doesn’t control it wouldn’t be an issue.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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          2 months ago

          Either you share the message history to new users (which includes feds) or you don’t have any history. I don’t understand what you mean

          • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            The server provides the data to authenticated users and helps facilitate pki between the clients.

            If someone is added by the server to have access to the data but wasn’t given a key capable of decryption by an actual user they wouldn’t have actual access, just encrypted data.