If WhatsApp encryption can be broken, there is no way the agencies capable of doing so would share it with the lowly SEC. That would be a top level state secret.
On top of that I assume that the NSA (mostly) still has a PRISM-like programme in place, it would be foolish to assume otherwise. More exactly I do think that they (NSA and some other agencies) still have direct access to the servers of Google, MS, Facebook and Apple.
But I 100% agree with you, such lowly use-cases like the SEC chasing some bankers don't register on NSA's (and similar agencies') radar, it's only money, after all, I think they're more interested in dealings involving power itself.
But I 100% agree with you, such lowly use-cases like the SEC chasing some bankers don't register on NSA's (and similar agencies') radar, it's only money, after all, I think they're more interested in dealings involving power itself.