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Sorry, which "that" are you referring to?

If you mean this:

> So use a self-hosted open-source cloud backup system with a VPS?

then why not? It just needs to be set up to encrypt before upload, and decrypt after download, and have some means of sharing keys to other clients. Unless I'm being dumb and missing something?

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> Any cloud service that has end-to-end encryption today can be forced to break it if the jurisdiction in which they're based passes a law requiring it.

If a 3rd party can be compelled to decrypt it, it’s not e2e encrypted.

"Break it" in the same sense as the UK is demanding of Apple: put a backdoor into their encryption that "only the good guys can use".

Before they do that, it is e2ee. After they do that, it is not.

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