First, this is really old news picked up by the Guardian: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/wha... That's almost a year old! Second, this is not the biggest security issue IMHO: default WhatsApp behaviour is to backup all your messages unencrypted to Google Drive, therefore, if a government wants to read your messages, they'll just ask Google! (the content is inaccessible by you, but not to them! https://developers.google.com/... )
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First, this is really old news picked up by the Guardian: https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/wha... That's almost a year old! Second, this is not the biggest security issue IMHO: default WhatsApp behaviour is to backup all your messages unencrypted to Google Drive, therefore, if a government wants to read your messages, they'll just ask Google! (the content is inaccessible by you, but not to them! https://developers.google.com/... )