> The switch to Signal will also allow the Conservative party to stem the flow of leaks emerging from its inner circle.
How will it do that?
> Like WhatsApp, Signal has end-to-end encryption baked in, preventing a foreign power or individual from accessing sensitive conversations. In addition, it also includes settings, which, when enabled, self-destructs messages after a period of time.
> Unfortunately, Signal doesn't allow group moderators to block individuals from taking screenshots, which would frustrate the process of leaking a conversation to the press.
But if you look at the Buzzfeed stories referred to, they are based on insider leaks of Whatsapp traffic, often in the form of screenshotted group messages.
So while it's good for the Reg to poke fun at the implied encryption hypocrisy, they do their readers a disservice by not highlighting the discrepancy between the claimed cure and the actual disease.
In fact framing the Buzzfeed "whatsapp leak" stories as a security exploit issue is downright misleading.
If you look a little closer, they are all authored by ex-Breitbart journalist Alex Wickham and seem to have dried up around the time the previous PM Theresa May resigned. I think there's an obvious inference, which I will leave to the reader ;)