Ordinary Facebook text messages, Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Gmail, and other services are decrypted by the service providers during transit for targeted advertising or other reasons, making them available for court-ordered interception.
End-to-end encrypted communications, by contrast, go directly from one user to another user without revealing anything intelligible to providers.
Read that again!
Facebook text message, Alphabet's Gmail, and other services are decrypted by the service providers during transit for targeted advertising or other reasons.
End-to-end encrypted communications go directly from one user to another user without revealing anything intelligible to providers.
This is also very important:
Facebook says it can only comply with the government’s request if it rewrites the code relied upon by all its users to remove encryption or else hacks the government’s current target, according to the sources.
More here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D
#security #privacy
@yahananxie Governments and technology. Jeesh.
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/
This article is brilliant.
