Encrypted Messaging Apps Face New Scrutiny Over Possible Role in Paris Attacks
Intelligence agencies seem to operate on a very dubious assumption that if mass consumer products weren&#x27;t offering end to end encryption, terrorists would just be chattering away in the clear, rather than trivially switching to one of the plethora of alternatives that do allow secure communication (some of them open source and &quot;unbannable&quot;).<p>Are they really that dumb? Or is this a cynical PR exercise?