This is insanely cool. For everyone (very rightfully) worried about the PATRIOT act, the NSA, etc., etc. this is absolutely huge. One BILLION people just got t

This is insanely cool. For everyone (very rightfully) worried about the PATRIOT act, the NSA, etc., etc. this is absolutely huge. One BILLION people just got their messages encrypted. Facebook was under no obligation to do this; for the vast majority of tech history the messages sent by 99% of people were very insecure, and when the tech giants responsible were asked their response was "ehh". This suddenly cuts into a huge portion of that. Pretty much everyone with a mobile phone in Europe or South America, as well as large parts of Asia, suddenly now has completely encrypted messages. Kudos to Whatsapp for this fantastic move. On a related note, if anyone is inspired by this announcement to start using encryption in other parts of their life, I have a handful of Keybase invites available (to bypass the 25k+ waiting list.) Keybase's security depends on lots of people tracking other people, so only ask for one if you'll track other people. I see too many people that make an account and nobody ever tracks them/they don't track anyone. My email's in my profile.