However, one thing I'd be curious to learn more about from this community...
Facebook Messenger isn't encrypted now. What are the biggest examples where that has hurt users. I'm sure it happens, maybe frequently, but one thing that's impossible to get a sense of is the SIZE of the tradeoffs here. What's the biggest thing that's happened that we know about?
Listening to the tech lawyers today at the Senate hearing, the pro-privacy side hasn't made a clear argument about just how bad it is now in FB's case, and just how bad it was before several years ago in Apple's case.
(For FB you can understand why they wouldn't want to say their current system is a nightmare for users. Also, I understand a backdoor is different from the status quo or previous setups... not asking about a backdoor here.)
Messenger is encrypted, just not by default. You have to choose "private conversation" to encrypt. This is probably the right choice for most users since they'd rather have access to their messages across devices than e2e encryption.
Since I'd imagine, then, that 99% or more aren't encrypted, what has been the biggest issue that has resulted from this? We could then judge that against the negative outcomes of law enforcement not having access to, say, WhatsApp messages.
However, one thing I'd be curious to learn more about from this community...
Facebook Messenger isn't encrypted now. What are the biggest examples where that has hurt users. I'm sure it happens, maybe frequently, but one thing that's impossible to get a sense of is the SIZE of the tradeoffs here. What's the biggest thing that's happened that we know about?
Listening to the tech lawyers today at the Senate hearing, the pro-privacy side hasn't made a clear argument about just how bad it is now in FB's case, and just how bad it was before several years ago in Apple's case.
(For FB you can understand why they wouldn't want to say their current system is a nightmare for users. Also, I understand a backdoor is different from the status quo or previous setups... not asking about a backdoor here.)