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Messages in the Cloud is and has always been disabled by default.

So your 99% number is nonsense.

And E2E encryption is to stop MITM attacks which are quite common if you are using untrusted networks e.g. open WiFi networks.



> And E2E encryption is to stop MITM attacks which are quite common if you are using untrusted networks e.g. open WiFi networks.

Those could also be avoided with encrypted (but not E2E encrypted) messages. E2E is supposed to be stronger than that.


Correct. The point of End to End encryption is that nobody else knows the contents of messages under any circumstances other than those in the conversation (usually 2 people).




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