Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People | WIRED - 1 views
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Derek Bruff on 07 Apr 16"With end-to-end encryption in place, not even WhatsApp's employees can read the data that's sent across its network. In other words, WhatsApp has no way of complying with a court order demanding access to the content of any message, phone call, photo, or video traveling through its service. Like Apple, WhatsApp is, in practice, stonewalling the federal government, but it's doing so on a larger front-one that spans roughly a billion devices."