Years after testing, Meta is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption support to it’s Messenger chats for everyone by this year’s end.
This has been a long-requested feature from the community, and Meta delayed it to solve other problems related to it’s implementation. As they’re hopefully sorted now, Meta announced rolling E2EE to millions from today and everyone by this year’s end.
End-to-End Encryption in Messenger
Despite having hundreds of millions of users, Meta’s Messenger has long been missing the most secure privacy feature – end-to-end encryption. Rivals messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram, FaceTime, Signal, etc., have been having this feature for quite some time, yet Meta hasn’t bothered about it’s own.
Though Messenger follows essential encryption support, it’s not an end-to-end (E2E) encryption type. In the former, Meta has a copy of the encryption key to your chats, letting anyone with the key(including hackers, if unfortunate) snoop on your conversations when needed.
This is not possible in the end-to-end encryption system, where the chat’s private keys are stored with you and your recipient and not with Meta. Though the company has Secret Conversations, this is not enabled by default, risking users’ privacy.
Thus, Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for all Messenger chats after testing it for years. The company announced this most-needed support to millions more today and everyone by this year’s end.
“Starting today, millions more people’s chats on Messenger will be upgraded to stronger encryption standards as part of our ongoing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) testing. We remain on track to launch default E2EE for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year.”
Update your app to be greeted by this security alert that informs you of E2EE availability.
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