{"id":4931,"date":"2025-06-27T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/white-house-bans-whatsapp-html\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T05:00:19","slug":"white-house-bans-whatsapp-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/white-house-bans-whatsapp-html\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Bans WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>White House Bans WhatsApp<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reuters is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/whatsapp-banned-us-house-representatives-devices-memo-2025-06-23\/\">reporting<\/a> that the White House has banned WhatsApp on all employee devices:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The notice said the \u201cOffice of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TechCrunch has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/24\/us-bans-whatsapp-from-house-of-representatives-staff-devices\/\">more commentary<\/a>, but no more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/06\/white-house-bans-whatsapp.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Bans WhatsApp Reuters is reporting that the White House has banned WhatsApp on all employee devices: The notice said the \u201cOffice of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,464,1210,90,1,460],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cybersecurity","category-meta","category-national-security-policy","category-uncategorized","category-whatsapp","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}