Comment by wkat4242
1 year ago
Not really. WhatsApp only keep them temporarily (and E2EE!) until they're delivered to each device. Signal too. Telegram keeps everything for all time. Which is kinda handy too I have to say.
Of course you can send your backup to Google for WhatsApp and signal but that's optional. You can keep it locally too. And it's encrypted too. With WhatsApp you can even choose to keep the key locally only.
WhatsApp? The closed source app that AFAIK has never been externally audited, owned by one of the most privacy-disrespecting corporations in the world? You say I can trust it wholeheartedly as long as I don't upload backups to the cloud?
The founder departing Meta on very bad terms is quite a signal to me:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive...
I 100% trust they implement the signal protocol as they claim. I am also similarly sure that they ALSO have a sidechannel for everything.