
Encrypted backups can be automatically decrypted providing that the correct password is supplied.

The tool supports both rooted and non-rooted Android phones. The tool offers multiple acquisition options to extract and decrypt WhatsApp data from multiple local and cloud sources including Android smartphones, iOS system backups (iTunes and iCloud), and WhatsApp proprietary cloud backups in Google Drive and iCloud Drive. Their use would kill hundreds of people, irradiate a big chunk of land - but all for very little military effect.Elcomsoft Explorer for WhatsApp (EXWA) is a Windows tool to acquire, decrypt and display WhatsApp communication histories. In a country the size of Ukraine, you would need to use hundreds of these weapons to have any effect whatsoever and if you’re using hundreds of nuclear weapons then that’s no longer a small step on the escalation stairway.Īll it would do is cross the nuclear taboo and potentially open up a pathway to escalation that nobody wants. It would be an order of magnitude above any kind of escalation being conceived at the moment.īut, equally, the idea that Russia might use low-yield nuclear missiles is unhelpful - because where would you do it? Putin is not going to be firing the big, megaton-sized missiles at Ukraine.

However, we shouldn’t be scared of these threats. So Putin knows that it pushes our buttons, and it is right that we are energised when the idea of using nuclear weapons is discussed. To us, it is such a horrific concept that humanity would use these things again to Russia, it is part of their military doctrine.

In the West we do not talk about nuclear weapons in the way Russia does. Putin is trying to chip away at international support for Ukraine, and the easiest way for him to do that is to raise the spectre of nuclear war. Well, his army is shown to be subpar the Ukrainian army, though smaller, has not been broken so it’s only in the third area - international support - that Putin believes he can now have an effect. Vladimir Putin started his invasion in February last year thinking three things.įirstly that his army was fantastic secondly that the Ukrainian army was very weak and thirdly that the international community was too self-absorbed, complacent and apathetic to intervene.
