I was listening to a podcast and there was an ad for WhatsApp with the whole premise that if you don’t use end to end encryption for your text messages, that those texts are as easy to view as it is listening to a podcast, which made me think: is that really true? Because I wouldn’t even know where to start to see someone else’s texts, nor would I be interested and I’m sure the average everyday person wouldn’t need to worry about it right?
Am I missing something? Is there a way that anyone can input my number and suddenly have access to all my texts?
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Go to [haveibeenpwned.com](https://haveibeenpwned.com) and enter your email. Chances are you will see your email in atleast one breach if not multiple. Exploits allow people to access websites and exfiltrate data. Without E2EE your messages can show up online too. With E2EE they would have to specifically target your messages and then try to break the encryption to read them which is beyond the technical power of most.
It protects your privacy in the event of a breach and also court order.
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