Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Facebook claims to have E2E chats, but not by default. Likely these people used the default, non E2E messages.

    Not that I’d trust FACEBOOK with E2E anyway.

        • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          If you restore from a backup on iOS, probably not. I’m not a WhatsApp user, but I don’t remember losing my Signal history.

          • Ghoelian@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            By default whatsapp makes unencrypted backups. You can enable encrypted backups, but then of course if you lose the password you can’t restore the backup.