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> But tacking on "in plain text" to it just creates confusion.

Today, when the context is service provider and customers, "plain text" is used to say that service provider has the data unencrypted.

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That’s not what transmitted in plain text means. Transmitted in plain text means unencrypted on the wire, which is not the case here. Proton definitely knows that, and deliberately worded it this way for maximum scare factor. If they’ll be deceptive here, where else will they be?

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