This post has a lot of good context to nuance the dynamics on WhatsApp message confidentiality: https://makensi.es/privacy/e2ee/2020/03/23/can-facebook-read-wha

This post has a lot of good context to nuance the dynamics on WhatsApp message confidentiality: https://makensi.es/privacy/e2ee/2020/03/23/can-facebook-read-whatsapp.html#badcontext https://makensi.es/privacy/e2ee/2020/03/23/can-facebook-read... There are specifically two points that make me not confident in WhatsApp keeping my messages secure: * I don't have time to dig out a good source for it right now, but I remember seeing a credible claim that they already have in-place a mechanism to instruct the client app send back cleartext messages to a server. If they do not, it would be trivial to add it in an update. * The client will keep nagging you to enable cloud backups of message history. If you our your counterparty does this, message history is stored in cleartext on one of the major cloud providers. Are you confident that the person you're talking to hasn't enabled this, maybe even by mistake?