# Possible privacy flaw with DMs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-privacy-flaw-with-dms/204656
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-privacy-flaw-with-dms/204656 "2021-09-28T15:12:30Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-privacy-flaw-with-dms/204656/6 "2021-09-28T18:10:18Z")

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Yeah this is largely the nature of needing to moderate PMs. The same person could have simply shared a screenshot if we somehow attempted to block this behavior.

We have a plugin for encrypted PMs that can provide more privacy, [Discourse Encrypt (deprecated)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-encrypt-for-private-messages/107918), but because an admin can access the database there’s never a 100% guarantee of privacy when you send a message to someone else.

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