To those that for some reason still use WhatsApp
>There must be "no place for terrorists to hide" and intelligence services must have access to encrypted messaging services, the home secretary has said.
>All messages sent on WhatsApp have end-to-end encryption, meaning they are unreadable if intercepted by anyone, including law enforcement and WhatsApp itself.
>So while Masood's phone is believed to have connected with the app, police may not know what, if anything, was communicated.
WhatsApp will go first and soon all of your favorite instant messengers will go. This is the perfect time to familiarize yourself with XMPP
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39396578
backdoors/escrows are just vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited by chinks to steal your CC info
>>59596435
Media outcry has never gotten a multi-million dollar company to discontinue an entire service. Especially not from the fucking BBC.
>>59596435
This is so fucking stupid
>We must ban instant messengers because terrorists use it!
They may as well start saying
>We must ban oxygen because terrorists use it!
>>59597611
they don't wanna ban instant messangers tho strawboi