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by cesarb 1995 days ago
There's a configuration option you can enable which shows a message whenever the remote party changes their key (usually meaning they bought a new phone, in my limited experience), so it's not that silent. Yes, it's unfortunate that on WhatsApp this option defaults to disabled (to not confuse the newbies?), while on Signal (which uses the same protocol) this options defaults to enabled.