Why Amber Rudd’s anti-WhatsApp encryption spiel is ‘technologically illiterate rubbish’

‘If UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd listened to any cybersecurity expert for 10 minutes she would quickly come to understand how nonsensical her “incompetent, illiterate meddling” against strong encryption technology has come to be, experts warn.
Rudd believes that end-to-end encryption (E2E), used in apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, aids terrorism and as a result it is bad news. In an article in The Telegraph this week (1 August), Rudd claimed that “real people” don’t expect security in their digital services.
Despite the UK having one of the most invasive surveillance regimes in the world – under the Investigatory Powers Bill – giving police and security services the ability to literally hack into targeted smartphones and computers, it’s not enough for Rudd.
She wrote: “Real people often prefer ease of use and a multitude of features to perfect, unbreakable security. So this is not about asking the companies to break encryption or create so called ‘back doors’. Who uses WhatsApp because it is end-to-end encrypted?”‘
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