-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2016 12:46 AM, jim bell wrote: > 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.
So in brief, The Facebook wants to assure that that The Facebook, its DARPA investors, and whoever has broken into a given user's computer have /exclusive/ access to that user's "private" comms. - From a marketing perspective, as long as whatever they deploy is "good enough" that it can not be easily demonstrated useless, mission accomplished. Not that it matters much: Some people believe that The Facebook is an appropriate venue for business and "serious" personal communications, some know better, and as this is a question of basic competence it is unlikely that a cryptographic fig leaf will change the behavior of more than 1% of users' behavior for the worse. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXgQyCAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqEXYH/3v1aATqGHkY5zKWqaGRse7O 7YjSC7lmqtq4HKVQ1JmyaF0LBys99QsRx9GPJ8k9GD48h2bph4piQHOHL0B+Yytu O03G3UcUyHa3Zg0nBg8hCvKOlUm+d6c+9vKWoVVjpgNw3RmLmf21I1msSVxU89Vm OxWjfIDsEpzeRvabqKKxqKjC1nFJVJVVGeKu9SbkToE/Cs9XbQWqdCUSD+6I+hhK xtC9Mzxeisvhl8jM1YdpN0txNeT3GYBVojn9PqugL06WiH9t07w1+NRCd2lxspYz Ylk7QMmZYYyjUqg00GG7Tmod9t4xoa6J9qVEYMSPUhffILeO4kcZ1S+lOcORzUs= =soZ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
