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Let me quote from today's article by Cory Doctorow: ( http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-propos.html http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-pro... ) > If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it, then foreign spies, criminals, crooked police (like those who fed sensitive information to the tabloids who were implicated in the hacking scandal -- and like the high-level police who secretly worked for organised crime for years), and criminals will eventually discover this vulnerability. The police, the NSA, etc, cannot be trusted not to misuse information which they obtain. In fact, you can quite reliably trust them to misuse that information, if history is any guide (and it is). Whether the misuse will include actually boldly grabbing some private information that's currently valuable and selling it on Evolution or Silkroute 3 or whatever, is a purely academic question. If the information is on NSA servers, and is valuable, and someone at the NSA knows about it, it probably will be misused in some way.