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There was a bit of a song and dance when Whatsapp adopted the Signal protocol. Certainly if you choose not to back up your Whatsapp messages, your old messages
by caf 4y ago
There was a bit of a song and dance when Whatsapp adopted the Signal protocol. Certainly if you choose not to back up your Whatsapp messages, your old messages aren't available when you switch phones.
If they're not end-to-end encrypted, they're engaging in a lot of deception to indicate that they are.
- jeroenhd 4y agoThey are if you enable encryption (with your own key, of course). The default backups are insecure, though.
- mulmen 4y agoExcept you provide the key to the app and the app is controlled by FB. There’s really no way to prove the key stays on your device. Or that your messages aren’t just forwarded without encryption to a FB datacenter.
- mulmen 4y agoThanks, I don’t have much experience with WhatsApp. I don’t have a lot of faith in Facebook. Especially post-Snowden. If you think you need E2EE you can really only achieve that on an open system you control and have intimate knowledge of. You can’t trust precompiled binaries. Something something trusting trust. This isn’t a problem technology can solve. Women shouldn’t need to be information security experts just to ask questions about their own bodies.
- unmole 4y ago> Especially post-Snowden. What does Snowden have to do with Facebook? I'm asking in good faith.