Days After London Terror Attack, the UK Government Is Already Going After WhatsApp's Encryption

NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman comments on the encryption debate in light of the most recent attacks in London: While there is “an undeniable governmental need for these messages,” the question is really whether companies should be forced to build a product that allows the government to access data…Any action on this issue “has a trade-off associated with it,” Goldman said—if we want the government to be able to read these messages, it means dramatically undermining end-to-end encryption for everyone.