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Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by ben1040 on Saturday June 16, 2018 @12:16PM (#17327974)
Ah, I know WhatsApp warns you about setting up backups that it's not subject to encryption, but I guess I took that to be the entirety and not just media. Which is still a big gap, since in 2018 we share lots of media in chats.

In any case you are right that if you can restore an "encrypted" backup onto a fresh phone without any info from the old one, then all the bits necessary to do are held by parties who can be legally compelled to give them up.

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Re:FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohe... by reitanqild on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:26PM (#17329526)
Last I checked it was really easy to get data out of a WhatsApp backup.

No special skills needed except running locating the file, running a command and connecting using SQLite or something.

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