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.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Oh man, if they think WhatsApp is bad, go look at Twitter’s DM encryption implementation. They need to ban that app as well.

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    8 days ago

    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”

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    8 days ago

    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.