Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo

Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by eightysix_four on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:23PM (#11726090)

I think this is a terminology issue - from what's been said elsewhere the only two differences in incognito mode is that it is E2E and doesn't show messages on your lockscreen.

It's not ephemeral messaging like Snapchat or something, although they are discussing it as a future feature.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:26PM (#11726113)

I followed the arstechnica liveblog. http://live.arstechnica.com/google-io-2016-keynote/#post-885...

>Incognito also offers message expiration. When you close incognito mode, your message is gone forever.

I assumed that was accurate. Did they misrepresent it somehow?

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by eightysix_four on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:45PM (#11726238)

Possibly - the two sites I've seen with "hands-ons" do not mention this anywhere.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by ikeboy on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:59PM (#11726332)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-takes-on-apple-facebook-w... (https://archive.is/ELitC for paywall)

>All chats will be encrypted, but a special incognito mode will have an end-to-end encryption, and expiring chats that are permanently deleted once you leave them.

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