{"id":39617,"date":"2017-08-12T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39617"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:21:41","slug":"why-the-government-shouldnt-break-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/12\/why-the-government-shouldnt-break-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Government Shouldn&#8217;t Break WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CINVwWHlzTY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 3 Jul 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encryption backdoors &#8211; breaking WhatsApp and iMessage&#8217;s security to let the government stop Bad Things &#8211; sounds like a reasonable idea. Here&#8217;s why it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>A transcript of this video&#8217;s available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/tom-scott\/why-the-government-shouldnt-break-whatsapp\/1378434365572557\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/tom-scott\/why-the-government-shouldnt-break-whatsapp\/1378434365572557\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 3 Jul 2017 Encryption backdoors &#8211; breaking WhatsApp and iMessage&#8217;s security to let the government stop Bad Things &#8211; sounds like a reasonable idea. Here&#8217;s why it isn&#8217;t. A transcript of this video&#8217;s available here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/tom-scott\/why-the-government-shouldnt-break-whatsapp\/1378434365572557\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,9,10,15],"tags":[157,58,154,911],"class_list":["post-39617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-encryption","tag-internet","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aiZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions\/39618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}