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		tomgaga on July 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestr... I think this statement is being misunderstood by a lot of people here. The Google Drive backup is most likely still encrypted, just not "end to end" because the key needs to be stored on a Facebook server. That makes a lot more sense to me.

beagle3 on July 10, 2020 [–]

I don’t follow this closely, and this may have changed recently but As of 6 months ago, people have managed to download an unencrypted copy from Google Drive by impersonating the WhatsApp app.

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