“After the horrifying terror attack in London last week, the familiar debate over government access to encrypted communications has reared its head again.
This time, Britain’s home secretary Amber Rudd—who deals with security, terrorism, and policing, among other things—pointed the finger of blame at companies that make encrypted communications possible. “We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other,” Rudd said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday.”