Boris Johnson’s cell phone could be intercepted by “hostile powers”.
To sound the alarm is Peter Ricketts, British diplomat and former national security consultant, based on the fact that the number used by the Prime Minister has been publicly available for 15 years now, as revealed by the gossip site Popbitch!
“How long WhatsApp and other communication systems provide for the possibility of encrypting messages, it cannot be excluded that some hostile foreign power will still be able to decrypt them “, explains Ricketts.
The undersecretary Victoria Atkins he replies that “the Prime Minister knows better than anyone what responsibilities he is held in terms of national security. If anything, I am surprised that a national media has found it appropriate to disclose the fact that her mobile number can be found on the Internet, assuming it is true.
Popbitch has in fact given indications on how to trace a 2006 press release online, on the foot of which the telephone number of Boris Johnson. And, what is even more incredible, the number has never changed for all these years, despite the important institutional role assumed by “BoJo”!
Not only that: it seems that so far the Premier has declined the invitation to change it, coming from his closest advisers. Will that change now, in light of this unfortunate incident?
It is very likely so, even if, given the precedents, Downing Street hiding behind a “no comment” a lot british.