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minus-squareUnculturedSwine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·1 年前I feel like that is also by design. If your account is compromised, you wouldn’t want them to be able to pull messages from your existing devices. It kinda defeats the purpose of them not being stored on the servers.
minus-squarebl4kers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 年前They could just make it opt-in, no? “New device X has logged in to your account. Do you want to transfer existing history on this device to it?”
I feel like that is also by design. If your account is compromised, you wouldn’t want them to be able to pull messages from your existing devices. It kinda defeats the purpose of them not being stored on the servers.
They could just make it opt-in, no?
“New device X has logged in to your account. Do you want to transfer existing history on this device to it?”