Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]
by inasio on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:41PM
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I'm pretty sure both Apple and Google are very happy with the current state of affairs, this system works great to keep people locked into IOS or Android, as exporting your data is super hard (there were a number of expensive sketchy-looking apps that claimed to be able to do this)
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Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]
by pgalvin on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:24PM
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https://wabetainfo.com/how-to-migrate-your-chat-history-from...
This is possible now (in one direction, so far).
Re:WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups [pdf]
by blue_rog on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:34AM
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Slight Nitpick: This is only available for Apple to Samsung devices.
However,
> Unfortunately, it’s still not possible to migrate your chat history [from iOS] to a different Android phone, but WhatsApp is planning this in the future. It’s also not possible to migrate your chat history from Android to iOS right now.