"Foreign intelligence agencies can exploit...weakness, too. WeChat added some limited encryption features in 2016, according to Mona Wang, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. But the security improvements still fall short of the encryption offered by other messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp." Read the full New York Times article here.

In case you missed it: read more about Wang's work in "Meet the Researcher: Mona Wang" on the CITP Blog from this spring.