{"id":8927,"date":"2016-07-08T06:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=284497"},"modified":"2016-07-11T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:03:48","slug":"facebooks-secret-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/07\/08\/facebooks-secret-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook’s Secret Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook began today (Friday, July 8) rolling out a new beta-version feature for Messenger called “Secret Conversations,” allowing for “one-to-one secret conversations … that will be end-to-end encrypted and which can only be read on one device of the person you\u2019re communicating with.”<\/p>\n

Facebook suggests the feature will be useful for discussing an illness or sending financial information (as in the pictures above).\u00a0 You can choose to set a timer to control the length of time each message you send remains visible within the conversation. (Rich content like GIFs, videos, and making payments are not supported.)<\/p>\n

The technology, described in a technical whitepaper<\/a> (open access), is based on the Signal Protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, which is also used in\u00a0Open Whisper Systems’ own Signal<\/a> messaging app (Chrome, iOS, Android),\u00a0 WhatsApp<\/a>, and Google’s Allo<\/a> (not yet launched).<\/p>\n

Unlike WhatsApp and iMessage, which automatically encrypt every message, Secret Conversations only works from a single device and is opt-in, which “will likely rankle many privacy advocates,” says<\/a> Wired<\/em> .<\/p>\n

But not as much as all of these encrypted services rankle law enforcement agencies, since the feature hampers surveillance capabilities, it adds.<\/p>\n

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