WhatsApp has encrypted its iPhone backups - here's why that matters

The messaging app added end-to-end encryption that prevents messages being intercepted last year, but until recently the chats were stored in a readable form when iPhone users backed their chats up on Apple's own servers.While iCloud accounts are encrypted, someone with Apple's decryption key would have been able to access the entirety of a users' communication history, meaning they theoretically could have handed messages to law enforcement if instructed to do so.The extra layer of se