Apple has been all over the news over the past few weeks after the FBI asked the company to help it unlock an iPhone owned by one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernadino attacks. The war on encryption is now heating up: The Justice Department is going after Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp as it allows users to send encrypted messages, reports The New York Times. In an ongoing case, a federal judge has approved a wiretap but investigators can’t decrypt the messages sent using WhatsApp. Because it uses end-to-encryption, only the sender and recipient can see the conversations…
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