As we‘ve discussed a few times, Theresa May and her colleagues have been pushing to break real encryption as part of the party‘s manifesto. And they‘ve used recent terrorist attacks as an excuse to ramp up that effort — even though the perpetrators of recent attacks were already known to law enforcement and there‘s no evidence encryption played any role. Earlier in the year, Home Secretary Amber Rudd had insisted that encrypted communications were completely unacceptable, and specifically namechecked Whatsapp: