UK govt wants access to WhatsApp messages

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Encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp should build back doors into their systems so intelligence agencies can read suspected terrorists' messages during investigations, the Home Secretary has said. On encrypted messaging services, she told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "It is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide. It comes amid reports that terrorist Khalid Masood used WhatsApp seconds before launching Wednesday's attack at Westminster Bridge - but agencies are unable to see what was in his communication. Amber Rudd said she supports end-to-end encryption, offered by the likes of WhatsApp, but added that security services must be able to eavesdrop on messages when they have a warrant. "We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other."


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British officials seek access to jihadist's WhatsApp messages

Hard-partying, crack-loving, London jihadist Khalid Masood sent an unrecoverable WhatsApp message moments before his deadly rampage, prompting Home Secretary Amber Rudd to ask for help. "This terrorist (Masood) sent a WhatsApp message and it can't be accessed." Rudd said. London jihadist Khalid Masood was not a "proper Muslim," instead...A top British official on Sunday asked tech companies to help anti-terror investigators and break their own encryption in cases of national security. She appeared on both BBC and Sky News, urging WhatsApp and other encrypted messenger services to allow law enforcement and anti-terror investigators access to fight evil doers like Masood. Apple refused to unlock the iphone but feds eventually broke the security code without the tech giant's help.

British officials seek access to jihadist's WhatsApp messages

WhatsApp terror row: 'If security services can access encrypted messages, hackers can too'
Allowing security services to access encrypted messages would also open the door to hackers and criminals, says a former counter-terrorism officer. He also said pointed out that Masood wasn't on MI5's 'top 3,000' list of terror suspects, which "suggests very much that if the intelligence services did have the power to monitor somebody's WhatsApp messages, they wouldn't have been monitoring his anyway." On Sunday (March 26) Home Secretary Amber Rudd said intelligence services must be able to access relevant information on encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, as Khalid Masood appeared to have used the app moments before he launched an attack on Westminster. Former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer Charles Shoebridge told Sam Delaney it would be dangerous to "open up this so-called 'back door of encryption'" to allow a security service access, as "you also put that weak system there to be exploited, not just by our security services, but also by hackers and criminals." Listen to the full interview above


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