Comment on [Facebook] Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default - The Verge
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
So Facebook, the company that reviews your private messages ( money.com/facebook-reviews-private-messages/ ) will let you encrypt your messages to other messenger users (That it also monitors) so that a third party can’t get that data without paying them first?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean if its not encrypted, that could only ever be double-speak. If they say its e2ee, I’m sure they’re still hoovering metadata but thats a strong claim that requires rigorous implementation thats going to be tested equally rigorously. Still think people should delete the app tho
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rigorous? Not really. The decryption takes place client side in-app, and they simply process it before it hits the display. Just because it’s encrypted in transit doesn’t mean fb doesn’t have ita greasy paws all over it.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The whole point (arguably) is to avoid another situation like when the girl got nailed for an abortion and the mother got charged with facillitating or something because Facebooks chat records between them were accessible to Facebook -> Government upon request/warrant/etc.
I get Facebook sucks but lets try to think clearly about this. Otherwise I wouldn’t be questioning your points but this is a palpable issue that embarassed them and laid bare how dangerous and rickety the whole setup was
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They claim E2EE. No third party breaks it. Law enforcement is appeased.
But their closed-source app could still be analyzing the messages before encrypting. We wouldn’t know, because it’s closed source.
They could still argue it’s E2EE, as it was encrypted on one end and decrypted on the other.