Every WhatsApp message its 1 billion users send is now encrypted

Hot off the heels of Apple's recent legal tangle with the FBI, WhatsApp isn't waiting around until the government comes knocking at its door. The popular messaging company just flipped on encryption, protecting its current subscriber count of one billion people around the world from any future attempts to parse information from the service.Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, took a stand at MWC 2016 to back Apple's position versus the FBI. If you need a refresher, that position in particular was that