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panacea on May 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Instagram is so fast at uploading photos

Playing the Devil's advocate (IANOCoder), but perhaps the bulk of the 1s&0s are being uploaded and then decrypted by sending a small string when the user selects "publish"?

Probably not.

eli on May 1, 2012 | [–]

That's a little silly. How is trusting them to correctly implement an encryption scheme terribly different from trusting them to responsibly delete aborted photos in the first place?

mistercow on May 1, 2012 | [–]

That would be the responsible way to do it, surely, although they should still mention it in the TOS.

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