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WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History (medium.com)
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[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

WhatsApp — by default, on most devices, for most users — automatically backs up your entire chat history to iCloud(iOS) or Google Drive (Android). This backup contains your decrypted messages. The plaintext. The thing the Signal Protocol just worked so hard to protect.

Stones in glass houses from Durov here. They don't even have encryption...