The Bangkok bombing was far from an amateur affair, and as information continues to leak out about its organisation the professionalism of the people that carried out the atrocity becomes more apparent. Yesterday Indian press reported that the members of the terrorist cell never actually met in person, but communicated over WhatsApp. This might not come as a big surprise, but it adds to the hawkish arguments for intelligence agencies to have access (legally or otherwise) to messaging systems. We note that WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) recently embedded end-to-end encryption across its platform.
The Bangkok bombing was far from an amateur affair, and as information continues to leak out about its organisation the professionalism of the people that carried out the atrocity becomes more apparent. Yesterday Thai press reported that the members of the terrorist cell never actually met in person, but communicated over WhatsApp. This might not come as a big surprise, but it adds to the hawkish arguments for intelligence agencies to have access (legally or otherwise) to messaging systems. We note that WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) recently embedded end-to-end encryption across its platform.