Amber Rudd is at it again. Today, the UK home secretary took to the pages of The Daily Telegraph to continue her crusade against end-to-end encryption in messaging apps like WhatsApp.
She retreads the same argument we’ve seen her – and prime minister Theresa May – make on multiple occasions. If a messaging app is end-to-end encrypted, then only the participants in a conversation can read the messages in it. It’s impossible for anyone – even the company running the service – to intercept or read those messages.
“Real people”, Rudd writes, don’t need this level of security. She claims that end-to-end encryption only benefits terrorists, who can communicate their plans safe in the knowledge they can’t be overheard. “They use the very best of innovation for the most evil of ends,” she writes.
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