Fb continues to question the privacy and security of its services, and Instagram and Fb Messenger remain unencrypted.
Lots of big data leaks and various controversies resulting from changes to the Terms of Use included by whatsapp it seems On Fb, they continue their roadmap without paying too much attention to criticism of their privacy policiesImprovements in this regard do not appear to be a priority in the Menlo Park offices.
In fact, that’s what some industry experts are commenting on xda developer it is Encrypt messages between users They won’t be ready in the short term, at least if we attend Fb Messenger and Instagramdespite the fact that it is an almost necessary and mandatory choice for protect shared information by the people who use these services.
Fb itself also recognizes concerns in its ranks, but ia announce new security and defense plans Released in the last few hours, Mark Zuckerberg’s own company states that the End-to-End Encryptionfor example, It will not come at least in this year 2021encourages us to wait many more months:
While we hope to make further progress with end-to-end encryption by default for Messenger and Instagram Direct, this is a long-term project and we won’t be fully ready for end-to-end encrypted conversations until 2022 at the earliest. Additionally, the security features we have already introduced are designed to work with Y también2Y también encryption and we will continue to add strong security features to our services.
Fb is working on encryption but seems to have other priorities
The lime and the sand in the same paragraph, and that is Fb claims that they are working on a lot of news related to privacy and securityhowever, offered no further details and announced that there will be no end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram at least until next year, 2022, and many months until then The communication of its users spreads unprotected over the network end to end of any kind.
It should be noted that WhatsApp has this type of encryption, after years of bitter requests from its users, and that too Fb Messenger has this important feature when switching the mode “Secret Chat”where some features of the service are disabled, as well as encrypting messages.
For their part, Instagram has not yet implemented any form of encryption, and they have confirmed this from California It would be implemented in Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram as early as 2019 no offer more than this promise.
Oddly enough, with so much criticism under its belt, Fb continues to prioritize other developments instead of finally implementing end-to-end encryption and thus the communication protection of its users, since They’ve been working on it for two years. We haven’t seen much progress in that sense, nor in the unified infrastructure they promised.
And it’s true that this infrastructure is complicated, but that’s about it Other services like Signal and Telegram offer Y también2Y también privacy almost by birthand the movement of users away from Fb’s messaging services to other options has not stopped in recent years precisely because of these problems and because of the constant changes in the Terms of Use Announced from Menlo Park… Will they continue to put up with the loss of users?