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.
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.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 day 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.