> This is just plain wrong. I'm questioning that, because WhatsApp has to add a back-door for sure. And Doctorow knows that. This is because of Section 215 US P

> This is just plain wrong. I'm questioning that, because WhatsApp has to add a back-door for sure. And Doctorow knows that. This is because of Section 215 US Patriot Act – at least there is a legal back door, which can be (ab)used by US governmental agencies at any time. Care to elaborate on that? Because I don't think there's any law right now, not even CALEA, that demands a backdoor in a chat application. That's not to say Whatasapp won't willingly add such a backdoor, but I don't think anything legal forces them to do it. FBI has been lobbying for the past few years to pass such as a law, though, which is for now unsuccessful, fortunately. I'd say wait a year or so after Whatsapp enables this and for iOS, too. If we won't hear anything from the US, Saudi, Indian or Chinese governments about how angry they are at Whatsapp's new encryption, then we should start to become very suspicious about that encryption. Because this should make them at least as angry as full disk encryption made FBI. Heck, the Saudi gov was even pissed off at Whatsapp's HTTPS encryption.