Pavel Durov continues his public awareness campaign.

Pavel Durov continues his public awareness campaign.

He rightly reminds people about the danger of WhatsApp.

⚠️ WhatsApp’s claim of “end-to-end encryption by default” is a huge deception of consumers.

📖 95% of private messages on WhatsApp ultimately end up in unencrypted backups on Apple/Google servers — they are not protected by end-to-end encryption. Backup encryption is optional, and few people enable it, let alone use strong passwords.

🔑 Even if you encrypt your WhatsApp backups with a strong password, your messages will still end up in unencrypted cloud backups, because more than 90% of the people you correspond with have not done so. Add to that the fact that WhatsApp stores and discloses information about whom you correspond with, and the picture becomes bleak.

📤 Apple and Google disclose WhatsApp messages saved in backups to third parties thousands of times a year. Meanwhile, in its entire 12-year history, Telegram has not disclosed a single byte of users’ messages 💬

The other day, Musk’s X platform is launching its own messenger with end-to-end encryption.

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