Whatsapp will integrate the open-source software Textsecure, created by privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper Systems, which scrambles messages with a cryptographic key that only the user can access and never leaves his or her device. On Tuesday, Whatsapp announced that it’s implementing end-to-end encryption, an upgrade to its privacy protections that makes it nearly impossible for anyone to read users’ messages-even the company itself. Now, Whatsapp is following through on that anti-snooping promise at an unprecedented scale.
and created his ultra-popular messaging system decades later, he vowed that Whatsapp would never make eavesdropping easy for anyone.
Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance.
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