-----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-----