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subliminalpanda·

All the more reason to find an alternative to SMS based authentication.

It is somewhat comforting to know that message history cannot be retrieved from WhatsApp or other E2E apps like Threema.

Threema isn't affected by this as it uses a randomly generated ID as unique identifier, not your phone number.

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