Facebook Messenger will add end-to-end encryption

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For some time now, especially after the revelation of Snowden's papers, security and privacy have been placed above many user needs and as proof of this, is that WhatsApp is the current king of the platform Mobile messaging added end-to-end encryption a few weeks ago to its service, so that messages sent by users cannot be intercepted, since they are encrypted on the sending device and decoded on the device that receives them, a feature highly demanded by users of this platform, since most competing applications had this function for a long time.

After the implementation of this security measure in WhatsApp Facebook will also add this type of encryption to the second platform in the instant messaging market, Facebook Messenger. It is clear that the guys on Facebook only move for their own interests. Perhaps adding this type of extra security to their messaging applications may be motivated by the slower growth in recent months of their messaging services because when it comes to copying the streaming video relay service that Twitter launched with Periscope they have it took just a few months.

But as usual every time Facebook adds a new feature, the option of end-to-end encryption will be available as an option for Facebook users as some of the new bots that have arrived on the messaging platform will not work properly with this type of encryption. This excuse reminds me a lot of the one that WhatsApp offered to iOS users who took longer to enjoy, or suffer from, WhatsApp Web, due to the security problems offered by iOS, problems that I had not found on the Android platform. there it will come before this mobile operating system.


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