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Backups: The Weak Link in Your “Private” Messages

The encryption promises you trust can unravel with one forgotten setting, and it’s not your app, but your habits, that decide what stays private.

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Encrypted messaging apps love to parade around in privacy circles. The promise is simple: your messages are yours and yours alone. End-to-end encryption, they say, ensures that only you and the person you’re messaging can read what’s said.

And this is all true.

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