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Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf] by jbverschoor on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:55PM (#28485686)
Deduplication could be a thing
Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf] by beagle3 on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:49PM (#28488137)
Incredibly unlikely. The backup is AFAIK an SQLite file that contains the text messages (and indexes, etc). The bigger files - images, videos and voice messages - are not included in that backup, and are backed up independently to Google Photos (and always have been).