Users provide an opportunity to enable the timer, after which the secret conversations will be deleted.
On Friday, July 8, the social network Facebook announced the testing of the ability to create secret conversations in the messenger.
The “secret” dialogues will be encoded in such a way that it is written will only be available to users of the two devices that talk going on, and even Facebook will not be able to read them. Also they will not be able to transfer to law enforcement agencies, even if they will ask very persistently.
Users provide an opportunity to enable the timer, after which the secret conversations will be deleted without a trace. Recently, a similar security technology ran Apple’s iMessage and WhatsApp. The key difference, which offers Facebook, is that the user can choose which messages to encrypt, and what – not.
Facebook has developed the technology of message encryption for protocols that are also used to ensure the security of communication is WhatsApp. The technological details of innovations in social networks promise to tell later. The biggest drawback of “secret chats” referred to the fact that there are big problems with synchronization of messages across different user devices.
“The user chooses to communicate with him through secret chats. We do this because many people want to Messenger worked in sync, when they use different devices – phone, computer or tablet. And the secret chats will be available only on the device that was written. It’s not for everyone, it will be convenient. It is also important to note that in such chat rooms it is impossible to transmit certain types of content – such as gifs, videos, and other popular payment options”, – stated in the message of the social network.
Fasebook said that a basic test version already began to spread, and new functions will be added this summer.
