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Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including BlackBerry CEO’s stance on lawful access principles, the FBI/Apple hearing, Viber adding end-to-end crypto, Teslacrypt, and more. http://traffic.libsyn.com/digitalunderground/Threatpost_News_Wrap_April_22_2016.mp3 Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_April_22_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Messaging firm Viber is adding end-to-end encryption for 711 million of its users, becoming the latest tech firm to embrace encryption on an massive scale. Making the move even more provocative is the fact Viber is owned by a Japanese conglomerate and operates out of Israel – making it immune to existing and any upcoming U.S....