The Guardian recommends that if people do need to switch as a result of this, they switch to Signal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp

The Guardian recommends that if people do need to switch as a result of this, they switch to Signal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-encryption-backdoor-snooping-signal https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-... As far as I can tell, this has been their recommendation ever since their first article about this was published.