
Imagine pouring your country’s most sensitive secrets into a messaging app you downloaded for free. Now imagine those messages in the hands of your adversary. Sounds far-fetched? Not according to David Wiseman, VP of Secure Communications at BlackBerry, who warns that governments, businesses, and everyday people alike are hurtling towards a communications disaster, one group chat at a time.
Wiseman blows the lid off a terrifying new trend. The very messaging apps millions trust; WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, may each be ticking time bombs when it comes to privacy and security.
“People think end-to-end encryption is some magic bullet,” Wiseman says. “But the reality is, it’s just the starting point, and ...