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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by nkobeissi on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:24PM (#11726507)
> WhatsApp makes a lot of sacrifices to have encryption by default, like no backup of messages

Small clarification: WhatsApp actually does seem to have a backup feature, at least on my Android phone. I was prompted by the application to enable it just this morning.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by subliminalpanda on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:57PM (#11731616)
Message backup is there on iOS too.
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