People jumping ship is super bad news for government surveillance as WhatsApp has a convenient backdoor that alternatives don't have: the majority of users don'

People jumping ship is super bad news for government surveillance as WhatsApp has a convenient backdoor that alternatives don't have: the majority of users don't disable unencrypted backups in the cloud. So until now, despite all their hand waving about how bad encryption is, governments had an easy judicial way of accessing messages.