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@Peternimmo @rotfarm @Poe @mho

While kinda true, there's a vast difference between trying to locate and read specific physical letters manually (among millions) - and software scanning server data.

On other systems it is a given that DMs are at least stored encrypted - Mastodon's private messages are plain text therefore literally no effort would be required to process them.

However that still requires access to the servers since data-in-transit is encrypted even if data-at-rest isn't.