The problem, of course, is that Facebook itself owns the decryption keys.
End-to-end encryption takes the decryption keys away from Facebook.
When a conversation is protected by E2EE, only the sender and recipient own the correct keys.
That’s why this is such an important development.
Here’s the funny thing; Facebook took a “backwards” approach when implementing end-to-end encryption for Messenger.
Instead of starting with basic one-on-one conversations, Facebook’s E2EE debuted as part of theSecret Conversationsfeature in 2016.
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It later rolled out tovideo calls and group chats.
Old-fashioned direct messages are late to the E2EE party.
Validating this information through a server isn’t really an option with E2EE.
You should see more E2EE notices in Facebook Messenger over the coming months.
Again, Meta believes that it will fully deploy E2EE for direct messages by the end of the year.
