Britain's home secretary, Amber Rudd, has demanded that companies such as WhatsApp should be forced to give the security services a backdoor, saying it's 'completely unacceptable' that terrorists should be able to communicate in secret. "But on this situation we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted WhatsApp." The UK government has for some time complained vociferously about end-to-end encryption; and Rudd now says she's prepared to take action if necessary. As usual, though, she's taking the line that she's not demanding a backdoor - just, er, a backdoor. "The best people who understand the technology to stop it going up in the first place are them.

Source: Forbes March 26, 2017 18:11 UTC