This may lead to Facebook Messenger becoming one of the most secure messaging platforms.
The trouble is,nobody trusts Facebook.
We can’t blame people either as they are not quite transparent about their handling of data."
Encryption Confusion
There are several parts of a message conversation that can be encrypted.
The first is the conversation itself, as you and your contacts send messages to each other.
This is known as End-to-End Encryption or E2EE, and its what stops people from snooping on your chats.
Your messages are locked before sending, then unlocked by the recipient.
But theres another part.
Sometimes, your messages are stored on a server somewhere.
Usually, they are still encrypted, but the vendor may have a key.
Take iMessage, for example.
Further, your iMessages arestored as a part of your iCloud backup.
There seems to be an arms race developing to keep your messages secret.
The news is thatFacebook will now encrypt online storage for your messages, too.
Trust Issue
Facebook isnt interested in what you write about in your messages.
Metadata is stuff like when you send messages, who you send them to, and so on.
This is presumably why Facebook is interested in making the content of your messages as secure as possible.
It doesnt need it, so it can use it as a way to entice people to Messenger.
This is good news, and puts pressure on Apple to at least match the on-server encryption from Facebook.
There seems to be an arms race developing to keep your messages secret.
