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.

  • 0xEmmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    So either FB isn’t actually E2E, or their implementation is Twitter-grade broken.

      • 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.