[gaff33]

Given the amount of noise that politicians and law enforcement are making about WhatsApp - there's very good circumstantial evidence that their EndToEnd encryption works.

I am a nerd - I went through a phase of trying to get people to use PGP and then XMPP. Both are technical masterpieces but a complete disaster for actual users.

Here's the crux: I'd rather have all my conversations encrypted than just the ones I have with other nerds. In this respect WhatsApp has been the best thing that's happened to messaging since the invention of the internet.