whatsapp-viewer VS TextSecure

Already tied whatsapp viewer (https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer) but it shows db file version too old to be read.

This method is a bit dangerous, since it uses ADB and may brick your phone and also corrupt your history. I made sure I had all my chats backed up before try it for the first time. It worked, then I used again yesterday and it worked again. Cant be sure that it will work on your device, but if you want to give it a try, here is what I did Backuping whatsapp chat history without root: I used these tools back in september 2022 and worked just fine. To extract the key and uncrypted messages database: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor To decrypt the backup databases using the key you extracted and also to visualize the databases: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/releases To fix the SQL tables in order to visualize in the WhatsApp-Viewer: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/issues/151#issuecomment-1229244368

Whatsapp Viewer app on GitHub

The result is a sqlite database that can be dumped or browsed with the regular (database) tools; there are 2 projects I know of that are actually reading the data and presenting it nicely but both are broken just now as Whatsapp changed the name of some tables (the changes are only cosmetic, the data is still there): https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa and https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer .

(11) [Optionally:] If you want to send a message to a group instead of a single contact, you will need the precise jid number of this group. You can get it with the help of Whatsapp Viewer program.

The only way to cope with this is really ever-increasing storage on the phone (mind the sub please!) but otherwise export the conversation (I'm talking from some program that can read the db, again, major nuisance as the chats are encrypted and you don't have the key!!!) and possibly parse that to identify all the linked media from there.

Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store, and as a result fewer eyes independently building and testing the Signal code base. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but independent and reproducible builds seem like a net positive for everyone. Always struggled to understand releasing code as open source without taking advantage of the community's willingness to build and test. Looking at it in a new light after the XZ backdoor, and Jia Tan's interactions with other FOSS folk.

Signal has documentation on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

There's nothing on Signal blog as of yet, but Signal's git repository was tagged with v7.0.0 yesterday and we can see from the commit history since the previously tagged version (v6.74.4) that there will be a setting to hide one's phone number [1], as well as disabling the previous default behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all their contacts already using it [2].

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy")

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/6097e6c30...

Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp.

Telegram and Signal solve this.

Sadly yes: Looks like an open issue 13290 for Signal, sounds like they were/are indeed still interacting through google's push notification service, wat, and per a link at that issue it was a chore for Tutanota to break away once they realised it was a problem some years ago (though at least they thought about it years ago? wtf Signal...)

Here is one: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

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