Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification
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Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification
Urzl
in reply to Windy city • • •They're done leaving money on the table. Surveiling your every waking moment and conversation is too lucrative for any commercial entity to resist.
The ID verification shit under cover of "save the children" is just more capitulation by the regulators to market demand for more and more granular surveillance data.
Windy city
in reply to Urzl • • •@gooba42 Hit the nail on the head regarding the underlying data economics.
Not to sound like a conspiracy person but with the current industry arms race for LLM training pipelines, keeping petabytes of chat history cryptographically opaque was probably deemed an unacceptable opportunity cost lol ðŸ˜
Demokritus Jorik
in reply to Windy city • • •Rusty Shackleford
in reply to Demokritus Jorik • • •@serigala_tropis
"I don't trust this post."
"isn't E2EE chat only available on Facebook, not Instagram? I don't remember Instagram has E2EE."
Literally takes more time to type than:
"google.com"
"instagram e2ee"
clrn.org/is-instagram-end-to-e…
Long story short, yes.
Jesus fucking christ.
Is Instagram end to end encrypted? - California Learning Resource Network
CLRN team (California Learning Resources Network)Alerymin
in reply to Windy city • • •shadowwwind
in reply to Alerymin • • •Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
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