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> The only time when e2e is meaningfully different then https is when the server you're talking to (i.e. your personal matrix homeserver) is compromised.

Only if everyone's running their own personal homeserver, which seems pretty unlikely for regular people. You could've said the same thing about email (it's not meaningfully different unless your personal email server is compromised), but in reality the NSA ran mass surveillance on gmail and picked up a lot of data that way.



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