[jszymborski]

Sounds like this is less about Signal/WA and more about them not archiving methods.

They could in theory run _e.g._ `sigtop` every couple of months and encrypt it (e.g. age or veracrypt).

It's a complicated workflow but I imagine they have a pipeline for emails that isnt much less complicated, but also isnt E2EE.

[developer93]

WhatsApp at least has the possibility to back up messages, maybe signal too.

[jszymborski]

It's harder on Signal but there are tools to do it on desktop.

https://github.com/tbvdm/sigtop