"appsforpcdaily" : WhatsApp encryption under scrutiny after London attack

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This is why WhatsApp uses encryption


This is why WhatsApp uses encryption
While there's been much discussions over the ethics of deploying end-to-end encryption, there hasn't been much examination of why WhatsApp uses it. So why does WhatsApp use encryption? Encryption, according to Home Secretary Amber Rudd, is "totally unacceptable", as encrypted services provide terrorists with a place to hide from the law. Explained simply, end-to-end encryption is a method of scrambling messages, photos, videos and other files so that only people with the relevant keys can decipher them. In WhatsApp's case, this means only the people who sends a message and its recipient are able to read it – not even WhatsApp workers can access when is sent between users.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd calls WhatsApp encryption 'totally unacceptable'


Home Secretary Amber Rudd calls WhatsApp encryption 'totally unacceptable'
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". Rudd said it was "completely unacceptable" that the government could not look at messages on applications such as whatsapp. Shortly before mowing down pedestrians with his vehicle and stabbing a police officer, it seems Khalid Masood used the app, according to the screenshot that The Daily Mail posted. The UK government is gathering itself for an assault on end-to-end encrypted messaging services, demanding that providers including WhatsApp offer intelligence agencies access to content following the London attack. A top United Kingdom official is targeting WhatsApp, after reports that the terrorist who killed four people used the Facebook-owned messaging app before launching his attack in London this week.


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