Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs
Can you imagine a world where WhatsApp stops offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE)? That's not happening, but a different Meta-owned company …
Android Police Karandeep Singh Oberoi
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Discussion
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@stupidtechtakes
@stupidtechtakes
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why they doing that [image]
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@tuxpizza
@tuxpizza
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Is this the first time a major service has REMOVED end-to-end encryption instead of adding it?
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r/technology
r
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Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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They seem to have quietly abandoned the push for encryption to be a default. And now they're quietly abandoning encryption. This is a big 180.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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A big tell is the statement by Meta in this article: “very few people were opting in.” Meta knows opt-in encryption doesn't get adoption, which is why their original strategy was to make encryption on by *default* in WhatsApp, Messenger and their other products. [image]
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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Meta appears to be reversing its strong stance on encryption. The first obvious casualty is that they're abandoning and disabling end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs.
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@masnick.com
Mike Masnick
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Meta spent seven years telling us they were working on true end-to-end encryption across all their various messaging apps... and finally rolled it out in 2024. And then less than three years later, they're shutting it off for Instagram? What? — www.androidpolice.com/instagram…