Adam Kos Meta has announced that end-to-end encrypted chats and calls on Facebook Messenger are getting even more features. For the last eight years, users had to choose between E2EE and the availability of all chat functions, but not anymore.
End-to-end encryption, which is also denoted by the abbreviation E2EE derived from the English designation end-to-end encryption, is a designation for such encryption, in which data transmission is secured against eavesdropping by the administrator of the communication channel as well as the administrator of the server through which users communicate.
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By default, Facebook Messenger chats are not end-to-end encrypted, which means you need to enable this feature first. This is a secret chat feature that you enter when you select a contact in chat and click on their profile picture Go to secret chat. If you're starting a new conversation, just click on the top right turn on the lock icon.
Meta has now added more features to encrypted chat. It's not just GIFs, stickers and reactions, but the new update for end-to-end encrypted chats will also be able to send you a notification if someone takes a screenshot of a disappearing message you've sent, a feature taken over from Snapchat. Encrypted chats also now support verified badges so people can identify authentic accounts. An important innovation is that group chats already support encryption, both for text and voice communication.
Even though WhatsApp and Messenger messages are already encrypted, Instagram is still waiting for them. However, the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default on all Meta messaging services is not planned to be completed until sometime in 2023. Already in 2019, however, Mark Zuckerberg said: "People expect their private communications to be secure, and to be seen only by those it's intended for — not hackers, criminals, governments or even the companies that run these services."
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End-to-end as standard
After all, once your communication is encrypted, no one but you and the other party can access it, because the message is encrypted when it is sent, and decrypted when it is received. Anything in between that someone might pick up on the provider's server will just be code they can't figure out. Therefore, encrypted messages are an important step towards secure communication. Both the work and, of course, the private as well. In addition, it is provided by all major players on the market, including Apple.
Applications and platforms using end-to-end encryption:
- iMessage (since iOS 10)
- FaceTime
- Signal
- Viber
- Threema
- Line
- Telegram
- KakaoTalk
- Cyber Dust
- Wickr
- Coverme
- Silence
- Wire
- BabelApp
