titantiger

Once again, government people are clueless. If you make Whatsapp or iMessage breakable or have a "back door," two things will happen: 1. Serious criminals and terrorists will switch to other third party encrypted messaging tools or create one themselves. You might occasionally run into a dumb criminal where this might help, but you won't be making anyone safer from international crime or terrorism. 2. The same back door that the gov't now has will eventually fall into the hands of hackers and criminals and be used for identity theft and such. The end result will be, criminals and terrorists will still have secure communications the gov't can't access, regular law-abiding people will not and their private, personally identifiable information will be insecure.