Reuters reports that Facebook has gone to court to block the government’s request to weaken its Messenger app. The Justice Department sought to compel Apple to build a backdoored version of its iOS mobile operating system to aid the FBI’s investigation into the San Bernardino shootings. Five out of five of the world’s leading cryptographers agreed: Backdoors are bad. Any decision against Facebook in this case could be used in future cases to try and compel the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Signal to weaken their messaging systems’ security.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/crypto-wars-continue-as-feds-seek-messenger-backdoor-p-2650