British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday end-to-end encryption of messages offered by services like Whatsapp are "completely unacceptable" and there should be no "secret place for terrorists to communicate".
Local media have reported that shortly before launching an attack that killed four people including a policeman near Britain's parliament in central London, Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message via Whatsapp.
"That is my view - it is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide. We need to make sure organizations like Whatsapp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other," Rudd told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
"We need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted Whatsapp."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-security-rudd-idUSKBN16X0BE
One of the great things about the EU is that idiots like this would get overruled.
So sadly shit like this from people too old to understand computers will pass once we're out.
Encryption is mathematics. Anyone can create an encryption app with some knowledge.
Making that illegal is the height of absolute stupidity.