Adam Kos Meta, that is the renamed Facebook that owns not only this social network, but also Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, has postponed plans to encrypt the messages of the Facebook and Instagram platforms until 2023. It is based on the warnings of activists about the safety of children. They claim that this move will help various attackers avoid possible detection.
It was in August of this year that Facebook announced that it would implement end-to-end encryption for chat messages on both networks. However, Meta is currently delaying the move until 2023. Antigone Davis, Meta's global head of security, explained to the Sunday Telegraph that she wanted to give herself time to get everything in place.
"As a company that connects billions of people around the world, and that has built its cutting-edge technology, we are committed to protecting people's private communications and keeping people safe online." she added. This is nice, but many consider end-to-end encryption, i.e. end-to-end encryption, in which the data transfer is secured against eavesdropping by the administrator of the communication channel as well as the administrator of the server through which users communicate, as a standard.
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End-to-end encryption should be the standard
Well, at least those who care about their privacy. As a matter of principle, they also cannot (don't want to) use these platforms to communicate with each other. In addition, end-to-end encryption is already offered by many competing and therefore more secure platforms, and it should already be an absolute necessity for online communication - but as you can see, such a big player as Meta can handle it. At the same time, the Messenger platform offers a secret conversation option that already offers end-to-end encryption, as well as for voice and video calls. It's the same with WhatsApp.
Meta just hides behind its empty announcements and appeals to the "higher good". This is mainly represented by the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which has said that private messages are "the first line of online child sexual abuse". Encryption would then only make the situation worse, because prevents law enforcement agencies and technical platforms read sent messages and thereby limit potential harassment. As mentioned, end-to-end encryption technology allows messages to be read only by the sender and recipient.
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Said towards the Meta representatives
Yes, of course, it's logical and makes sense! If you are worried about children, educate them, or make tools that prohibit them from such communication, make Facebook for children, ask for documents, confirmation of studies... Certain tools are already here, because on Instagram, people over the age of 18 cannot contact younger people, or just don't encrypt communications to users under 18, etc.
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Back in 2019, Mark Zuckerberg said: "People expect their private communications to be secure and to be seen only by those they're intended for — not hackers, criminals, governments, or even the companies that run these services (so Meta, editor's note)." The current situation just proves that renaming a company is one thing, but changing its functioning is another. So Meta is still just the familiar old Facebook, and to think that its move into the metaverse would represent something more was perhaps foolish. We also have other platforms here that you can probably rely on.
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The only higher good for this scumbag Zuckerberg is his profits from the user privacy business. So I don't use any applications from him or his networks, let him make $4 worth of some other dumbass who can't do without his wannabe social networks. After all, I myself will not install addaware spying applications on my devices.