"Your messages are already secure, but Secret Conversations are encrypted from one device to another," states a description in the app when users initiate their first encrypted conversation. The opt-in feature allows users to encrypt their messages so that no one can read them except the two people on either end of a conversation-not even Facebook or law enforcement or intelligence agencies. Now WhatsApp’s parent company Facebook has finally given people who use its other massively popular chat app the chance to catch up.Ī Facebook spokesperson tells WIRED the company just finished rolling out "Secret Conversations" to all 900 million Facebook Messenger users in the past few weeks. Last spring WhatsApp pushed out code adding a new layer of security to a billion users' apps, creating the largest end-to-end encrypted messaging network in history.
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