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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

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467 points bundie | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.486s | source
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saidinesh5 ◴[08 Jul 25 17:49 UTC] No.44502341[source]▶
Not exactly related, but does anyone know what's the best way to backup WhatsApp data on an Android phone without using Google drive these days?
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ilpianista ◴[08 Jul 25 17:54 UTC] No.44502388[source]▶
I use Syncthing to backup WA and Signal
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amlib ◴[08 Jul 25 18:17 UTC] No.44502589[source]▶
But isn't it quite useless to backup WA when it's all encrypted and you can't backup the key?
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ilpianista ◴[08 Jul 25 20:24 UTC] No.44503749[source]▶
The backup key is shown the first time you enable encryption.
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fransje26 ◴[08 Jul 25 20:42 UTC] No.44503901[source]▶
Would you happen to have good resources detailing the process?
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1. ilpianista ◴[08 Jul 25 23:28 UTC] No.44504947[source]▶
Pretty much what I summarized back in 2019: https://scarpino.dev/posts/automated-phone-backup-with-synct...

Nowayadays Syncthing is no more maintained due to some PlayStore drama, but Syncthing-Fork is a good replacement.

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2. fransje26 ◴[09 Jul 25 09:26 UTC] No.44507903[source]▶
I'll start from there, thanks!
3. saidinesh5 ◴[10 Jul 25 11:16 UTC] No.44519691[source]▶
Thank you for this. Just adding this here:

There seems to be an issue with recent Android apis that make file access painfully slow that it wasn't able to sync my data in 1 full day. Enabling the "Case Sensitive FS" option on the folder helped a lot.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1088#...