2016-07-09 7:46 GMT+03:00 jim bell <[email protected]>: > https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/08/messenger-adds-end-to-end-encryption/ > > Quote: > "Facebook Messenger wants to be your primary messaging app. As people > become more and more concerned about security, being the best messaging app > means being the most secure. That’s why Facebook is finally adding an > option for users to encrypt their chats in Messenger. > Messenger will begin to offer an end-to-end encryption feature to a > limited test group of users today. It’s a security option that’s been a > long time coming for Facebook, which has considered making end-to-end > encryption available for several months. The so-called “secret > conversations” debuted today will be only visible to the sender and the > reader, which means Facebook can’t enable some of the chatbot and payment > features that are normally a part of the Messenger experience. However, > end-to-end encryption boxes out law enforcement and even Facebook itself > from reading users’ chats, ensuring that their conversations remain private. > Messenger has also taken steps to make sure that chats remain secure, even > if a user’s device gets lost or stolen. In secret conversations, Messenger > will allow users to set an expiration date for a message so that it won’t > be visible in the conversation forever. Once the time runs out, the message > will vanish from the devices of all users in the conversation. Facebook > released technical details about its implementation of secret conversations > in a white paper (PDF > <https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/secret_conversations_whitepaper.pdf> > ). > Secret conversation mode will only be available on iOS and Android, not in > Messenger.com, Facebook chat, or the desktop Messenger app — at least for > now. Facebook’s vice president of messaging products David Marcus told > TechCrunch that the addition of end-to-end encryption is intended to help > Messenger become everyone’s go-to app." > [end of portion quoted] > Jim Bell > > > Jim, everyone, is it just me, or.... but when i see/hear the word "facebook" i get vomiting reflex and can't force myself reading further?
I'm not talking about using/not using it (facebook/their new secUUUre app), but talking about trust. *A total lack of trust toward them.* No matter what they write, say or "invent". Reminds me a saying on Russian towards a well known enemy which states, "you can kill me, but i won't believe you". ___ * the same refers to google too, of course. I use it, for example, 'cause i *have to* from various of reasons, but do i trust them? NO WAY. Do i use it for sensitive stuff? NO WAY. And their "new encryption" or "goody goody statements" won't buy my trust after all the revelations! And i don't need "new" revelations to keep that in my mind. But.... am i the only one? Do we need a Snowden explosion every 3-5 years to keep in mind that we are being fucked up all the time by the googles-facebooks and alike? -> thus NOT to trust them, no matter how they "sing"? I hope that we don't. .
