Facebook Messenger – end-to-end encryption delayed to end of 2023

Re:Facebook Messenger – end-to-end encryption delayed to end... by pavlov on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:25PM (#29376355)

Here’s a good thread from someone who saw it from the inside:

https://twitter.com/elegant_wallaby/status/14628453362888253...

Basically management assumed (as it seems that you do) that E2EE is a technical feature that can be flipped on without changing anything in how the social model works on Meta’s three distinct, unconnected messaging systems.

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Re:Facebook Messenger – end-to-end encryption delayed to end... by smolder on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:52PM (#29376517)

It is a technical feature. It can be "flipped on", though that exaggerates the ease.

That they're delaying e2ee doesn't surprise me, but that they claim to want to implement it in the first place does. I think the intent to implement it is a effectively a farce to convince us that the "hard choice" FB will make to not give users privacy was all about protecting our children.

Child sex abuse could be brought to a practical minimum without reading everyone's communication, and reading comms is not going to stamp it out. Reading everyone's communication is the prize, not saving kids.

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Re:Facebook Messenger – end-to-end encryption delayed to end... by rasengan on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:49PM (#29376495)

The unencrypted messaging didn't seem to stop Jefferey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, nor the many who participated in the activities with them.

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