Whatsapp

[Claude]

From Zdziarski's Blog of Things, a forensic report about chats deletion

[Rudi]

Site seems down? Al least for me...

This site can’t be reached
http://www.zdziarski.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;’s server DNS address could not be found.

[Claude]

no problems here ...

[Claude]

You're right, there's a problem at your end:


Tracing route to http://www.zdziarski.com.cdn.cloudflare.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; [104.28.29.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * 481 ms 468 ms 154.70.154.3
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 480 ms * 478 ms africainx.jinx.net.za [196.223.14.47]
4 632 ms 636 ms 668 ms core.nd-am-eqx-dce-1.to.nd-am-eqx-dce-2.ainx.p2p.10g.nd.africainx.net [41.84.13.10]
5 653 ms 659 ms * 10-2-4.ear2.amsterdam1.level3.net [213.19.192.133]
6 647 ms 657 ms 651 ms ae-237-3613.edge6.amsterdam1.level3.net [4.69.162.242]
7 * * 677 ms 4.68.111.178
8 667 ms 898 ms 660 ms cloudflare-ic-304618-adm-b4.c.telia.net [62.115.36.94]
9 685 ms 662 ms 664 ms 104.28.29.22

Trace complete.

[Rudi]

I'll have to wait it out...or come visit you.

[HansV]

The article says that WhatsApp on iOS uses a SQLite database to store your conversations. When you remove a conversation, the corresponding records are marked as deleted, but not purged from the database. So, while the database is encrypted, it is in theory possible to retrieve the deleted conversations. The only way to completely remove them is to uninstall WhatsApp.
See for example WhatsApp doesn’t delete your ‘deleted’ messages (which cites the source mentioned by Claude)

[Rudi]

TX for the info.

The only Whatsapp I use is verbal, when I greet my colleagues at work in the morning saying, "Whats app!"

[Claude]

[HansV]

The only Whatsapp I use is verbal, when I greet my colleagues at work in the morning saying, "Whats app!"

And that is no doubt recorded by Siri, and stored in Apple's big iCloud database...

[BobH]

Whew!!!! What a relief!

I never use "What's app?" preferring "whuzzup?" (Do you suppose Siri can understand that, in Texan?)

[Rudi]

(Do you suppose Siri can understand that, in Texan?)

Unfortunately you're out of luck. Siri learns very quickly and it only takes a few simple sentences for 'her' to pick up accent and dialect!

[garbsmj]

So if you don't have whatsapp installed on your whachamacallit then there's no issue?

[Rudi]

So if you don't have whatsapp installed on your whachamacallit then there's no issue?

I'd rather say, "if you don't have a whachamacallit then there's no issue?"

[HansV]

I you don't have WhatsApp on your whatchamacallit you don't have this particular problem.
But depending on whether it's an iOS whatchamacallit, Android whatchamacallit or Windows whatchamacallit, Apple, Google or Microsoft knows everything about you anyway...