Members of the Russian State Duma propose to block the WhatsApp application on the territory of the Russian Federation.
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    So that means we can interpret this as “WhatsApp messages encryption so good, that even the Russian government can’t decrypt it”?

    (Meanwhile in the us if someone follows the default settings of saving the chat history on Google drive, it’s easy to get)

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        There’s a reason if they push so hard in letting you enable the unencrypted backup on Google drive

        If you disable it, every once in a while they will ask you to enable with a full screen dialog. I can see many people giving up and enabling it just to let it shut up

    • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It uses the Signal protocol, so it’s been known that its encryption is good, which is why even Snowden saw it as more secure than Telegram.