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Australian security forces ban the ise of Whatsapp and Signal
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is a ban of those apps on work issued devices, not personal devices. I suspect there's a range of reasons for doing this but I don't think the apps being compromised is one of those reasons. Most likely the opposite, the apps work too well.
Yeah, I'm sure it's for auditing and being able to respond to freedom of information requests etc