![]() ![]() Or would some or all of your long-sent and theoretically-deleted messages hang around where they could be recovered? If crooks (or suitably warranted-up law enforcement officials) got hold of your laptop, or your phone, or your iCloud backups, would they find blobs of digital shredded cabbage? So much for what’s often called “encryption in transit” or “encryption in motion.” Encryption at rest ![]() Technically, at least, the acquisition seems to have done no harm, with WhatsApp now providing end-to-end encryption in a privacy-centred way, where WhatsApp itself never holds the cryptographic secrets that it would need to snoop on your messages as they pass through its service. The company was bought by Facebook in early 2014, at which point we wondered whether that would make things better or worse.
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