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yildo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Is it going to be like Whatsapp end-to-end encryption where they just rolled out a 4-digit pincode for "backups" on their servers as the third end?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Is your issue that it’s 4 digits, or something else?
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It sounds like it, although it looks like it’s a 6-digit pin instead from the image in the article.
There’s also this additional info directly from Facebook’s blog post about all this: