[Cryptography] UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

Targets?

More like made a bunch of fairly ignorant comments about what is purported
to be a 'problem'.

The point to be concerned is when politicians start trying to make
proposals.

What I see as the big problem with WhatsApp is that it is a walled garden
with the operator providing the application. So there is a single point of
failure. OpenPGP and S/MIME are not vulnerable in the same way as there are
multiple clients.

Of course it is also a fair point to say that S/MIME and OpenPGP  are not
vulnerable because nobody uses them because they are nearly unusable and
unusable and incomprehensible.

Both are fixable though.
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