Meta Finally Makes Encrypted Messaging Default for Facebook
After years of wait, Meta has finally made end-to-end encryption default for Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram chat.
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After years of wait, Meta has finally made end-to-end encryption default for Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram chat.
Meta’s latest end-to-end encryption will forever change the way you chat on Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.
WhatsApp users now have two extra options for how long the deletion period is - 24 hours and 90 days, the Menlo Park-based chat platform has revealed.
End-to-end encryption would make Facebook a 'honeypot' and a 'superplatform' for paedophiles, according to one official at the National Crime Agency (NCA). Rob Jones, director of threat leadership at NCA, criticised the social network for its plans to introduce the security standard to both Facebook Messenger and Instagram, which Facebook also owns. End-to-end encryption ensures only the two participants of a chat stream can read messages, and no one in between – not even the company that owns the service. Jones called end-to-end encryption – which is already used on Facebook-owned...