> WhatsApp has something like a billion users. Virtually none of them asked for end-to-end encryption. They don't know that they want it, but they got it anyway

> WhatsApp has something like a billion users. Virtually none of them asked for end-to-end encryption. They don't know that they want it, but they got it anyways when Whisper worked with WhatsApp to add Signal Protocol to WhatsApp. > But just because they don't want it doesn't mean they don't need it. Many WhatsApp users badly need messaging security that works better than their alternatives. They don't know it, but with the flip of a switch, they got that security. Most of them probably don't know they have it, either. This is a good thing: People can be safe without knowing how safe they are. The industry should be moving more people towards secure defaults. Yes, security nerds will want something harder to attack in the middle. That's fine: They can build their own perfect security tools, and nobody will use them.