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Friendly reminder that WhatsApp is far out: it uploads all data unencrypted to at least one cloud if on of the participants have backups enabled. So Signal, Ma
by eitland 5y ago
Friendly reminder that WhatsApp is far out: it uploads all data unencrypted to at least one cloud if on of the participants have backups enabled.
So Signal, Matrix or possible Threema (I don't know it) is in.
Personally though, I use Telegram and I drive an ordinary car, not an armored one.
- nybble41 5y agoNo matter which chat service you use, any recipient could potentially upload the unencrypted data to a cloud backup service. If you don't trust the intended recipients with the data then you shouldn't share it with them in the first place.
- eitland 5y agoHave my upvote. This is a great - and often forgotten I think - point. I guess my point is that in WhatsApp it is so easy to stumble into doing it, and that it sends it directly to the cloud. For clarification: I'm certainly annoyed at Google for a number of reasons, but I don't think their security record is worse than everyone else's. Quite the contrary.