WhatsApp encryption splats egg on Hillary's face

WhatsApp's encryption job is done -- says the billion-user messaging app team. It was helped by Open Whisper Systems, the crypto-heads behind the Signal system, which is what WhatsApp's app now uses.

[Developing story. Updated 8:59 am PT with more comment]

OWS is of course the merry gang run by the be-dreadlocked Moxie Marlinspike, and it's funded with a couple of million dollars of your taxes, via the hand of Hillary when she was at State.

So the guvmint can't spy on WhatsApp communications, yet it stumped up the cash to enable it? That must hurt.

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