[Cryptography] UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack

[Bumpa Dump]

Also,

> "The best people -- who understand the technology, who understand the necessary hashtags”

The necessary hashtags? Are these the people who are in charge of making important decisions about security?

Shame.

> On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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