Can we prevent an admin from seeing a private category?

[Wall-E (Raphael)]

Just saw this video on making private categories for a group of users:

How to create private categories using category security settings

This video explains how you can use group permissions to create private categories (or private “forums”). Scroll down for written instructions. [How to create a group and add permissions to a category] The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that t…

The question came up in our community. As the admin of our self-hosted instance, can I create a private category for a group, and offer them complete privacy so that I am not able to see what they post? That group would have its own admin/moderators for that private category.

[simon]

@Wall-E

As the admin of our self-hosted instance, can I create a private category for a group, and offer them complete privacy so that I am not able to see what they post?

No, the only thing I am aware of to prevent admins from reading content on the site is to encrypt PMs with Discourse Encrypt (for Private Messages). Otherwise, site admins are able to access the site’s database, so there would be no point in attempting to hide content from them.

[Wall-E (Raphael)]

Is the MathJax plugin supporting this encryption? Will People writing equations be able to send that encrypted while still being displayed nicely on the receiving end?