"Nor would WhatsApp breaking its encryption for Brazil’s Supreme Court actually alleviate the problem, according to Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The right to private conversations is vital to democracy according to Pfefferkorn, who described public policy attempts to undermine the app’s encryption as “an extremely dangerous path to walk down.”
“If it weren’t WhatsApp, it would be Telegram. If it weren’t Telegram, it’d be iMessage. If it weren’t iMessage, it would be Signal. Fake news is spreading, and it would spread whether it was any other communications app that people want to use,” Pfefferkorn told The Brazilian Report."
- Date Published:04/13/2018
- Original Publication:The Brazilian Report