Facebook Testing End-to-End Encryption in Messenger

[vooke]

End to End encryption is not done to improve users' security but to save FB's butt should some courts ever demand that they assist in some investigation. They can always claim that their hands are tied.

But it's quite clear that this encryption will NEVER move beyond the Messenger for how would they harvest your data?

 

[now i see it]

It's a ploy. Perhaps the actual message sent and received will be encrypted, but the app, we know dang well (if we know FB at all) is trackasaurus giganticus of the most insidious kind.

 

[Lostanddamned]

Very strange to be encrypted between one of your devices and one of the other users.

Seems they want you to remember encrypting then go no further.

 

[demodave]

I see the tinfoil hat crowd is out in force tonight.

Tinfoil hats go great with pie crust promises.

 

[sudo1996]

Use Signal instead.

Telegram is nice too.

Both are open source.

I don't know anything about Signal, but I'd be especially wary of Telegram since the server code is closed-source. Like, why is it closed-source? That's suspect.

Even if the server code is open-source, if it's not your server, you're not totally safe unless you handle the key exchange manually. Otherwise, there's no guarantee that the server isn't giving the clients fake public keys and MitM-attacking them.
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Because the same idea, that Apple has already implemented some time ago in iMessage, is or is not harvesting the contents of your conversations?

In my opinion, a statement from an Apple executive on an earlier article on MR suggested that they are harvesting your conversations. But it's open to debate. https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/16/apple-explains-why-no-imessage-on-android/