The U.S. House chief administrative officer has banned WhatsApp from congressional staffers’ government devices citing data vulnerability concerns. The cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app “high-risk” due to lack of transparency in data protection, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks, according to an email obtained by Axios.
Oh man, if they think WhatsApp is bad, go look at Twitter’s DM encryption implementation. They need to ban that app as well.
I tried to read the article on this. Shit source.
I bet WhatsApp was already banned. I find it hard to believe everything in congress isn’t centrally managed by policy and locked down via MDM.
This could be a memo from their security team going “No, you still can’t have Whatsapp”
How is it not actually an allow list vs a deny list. They should be clearing apps that can be installed and not the other way around.