Facebook Messenger will be as secure as WhatsApp
Did you know that the messages you send through the application Facebook Messenger are stored and susceptible to be read on the servers of the famous social network by governments and the company itself? Well, they are. And it is something that, apparently, not even Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, like. For this reason, the team of this messaging tool is working on implementing a security system similar to what was recently seen in WhatsApp Something with which the messages shared in a conversation would only be read by the users involved in said chat Of course, this would bring more than one problem to this messaging application .
At the moment these are just rumors that the newspaper The Guardian has published. According to three people close to this project, Facebook is considering inserting an end-to-end security and privacy system very similar to what seen in WhatsApp That is, a scheme that allows encoding and decoding messages only on the terminals of the users who are speaking on the same chat, thus preventing Facebook, nor their workers, not even thegovernments or hackers and cybercriminals can get hold of any data of interest from the conversation. Something highly recommended and up-to-date, taking into account that more and more messaging applications care for and protect their users.
Now, according to the same source, this safe mode for Facebook Messenger would only be optional That is, we should activate it every time we want to protect our conversations with this encryption method. And it is that, if Facebook made it mandatory and standard for all users, as in WhatsApp , they would cut their losses with all the work of recent years in matter of bots, assistants and other intelligent tools A contradiction worth thinking about very well which has more weight in the messaging application: privacy or innovation
In this way, Facebook Messenger would have a incognito mode or safe mode in which conversations would be encrypted and protected against the look of any curious.However, if you want to use a bot to help you search for content on the web without leaving the chat, to reserve a table at a restaurant or to notify us of any pending calendar appointment, for example, it would be necessary to deactivate this secure mode And many of these services and toolsadded to Facebook Messenger recently require user data and its processing on the social network's servers. A step that user-to-user encryption does not allow.
This translates into half security And what is worse, the risk of confusion among users Something that security expert and revealer of CIA secrets, Edward Snowden, has already warned about the application Allo from Google, which proposes a similar system. And it is that users could trust a security that could well not be active or be partial in their conversations.
Now, at the moment Facebook has not confirmed or denied anything about this supposed new security barrier for Facebook Messenger. We will therefore have to wait, without a specific date, to confirm these rumors.
