content: I know....  then again, they do have the capability of doing it.  Very few companies have the expertise to really pull this off, but whether it be Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, who would you actually trust?  The alternatives could be some lesser known entity doing it, but why would that give us confidence? Ideally it would be open source, and that will come at some point, so I'm not necessarily recommending WhatsApp but it's an indicator of the dire need for encryption and Facebook realizes this.