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WhatsApp message content is secure, but metadata does get turned over in subpoenas.

• Moodles 6y ago
  The question was: do we have any reason to believe it is more secure than weChat? I say yes.
  • fossuser 6y ago
    Yeah I don't disagree, definitely the answer is yes - I was just adding some extra detail.
    • Moodles 6y ago
      Fair enough, good points
• ggus 6y ago
  whatsapp backups on google are not encrypted. anyone wanting to read the messages just has to ask google.
  • theelous3 6y ago
    That is if you allow backups, and considering 99.9% of messages are unimportant faff, there's not much reason to. I changed phones a while ago. Lost hundreds of thousands of messages. Didn't inconvenience me in the least. Anything important is on less ephemeral services like email or backed up manually.
• MattGaiser 6y ago
  > but metadata does get turned over in subpoenas. A subpoena is another form of security, at least as far as a free society is concerned.