Do you have a source on this?
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Do you have a source on this?
According to Wikipedia, only the carrier's RCS server is used [1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services#So...
what a weird thing to say.
But it could be that messages sent to the original owner are received, since WhatsApp automatically re-encrypts and sends messages if the message has not been received yet and the key has been changed. So basically that would mean the message would be sent when the previous owner already changed their number. So the people shouldn't have sent the messages at all.
WhatsApp e2e encryption just makes sure that the only person that can read the message is the owner of the number, not necessarily the person you want to send it to.
I'm aware of https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp which I'm personally interested in, which uses a reverse engineered implementation of the WhatsApp web protocol.