Voice and video calls now have end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger. The chatting application of the social network has decided to follow the steps of WhatsApp when it comes to securing its application.
Messaging applications are becoming more secure thanks to improvements in encryption. In recent years we have seen how WhatsApp or Telegram added an extra security when sending messages.
Facebook Messenger had lagged behind a bit in terms of this issue and, also, functionalities. And, is that, the Facebook chat application does not have as many users as WhatsApp or Telegram.
But it seems that the application to chat of Facebook wants to get the batteries and would do so by adopting the same measures as WhatsApp. The new encryption that it would have would not only serve to send and receive messages.
This new security measure will also be applied to voice and video calls. Come on, like what WhatsApp has been doing for a few years. This end-to-end encryption is based on the fact that only communicating users can read the messages.
Facebook may have decided to add this new security due to all the controversies it has had over the years regarding privacy. Likewise, this search for lost confidence is what has motivated this new addition in security.
Of course, this is not the only novelty of the new version of Facebook Messenger. Among the plans of the messaging application, there is also starting to test a way to make group calls.
Another novelty that arrives are the messages that disappear. Yes, something that is very reminiscent of what is on Telegram and that WhatsApp launched rather recently.
In addition, as Instagram belongs to Facebook, end-to-end encryption is also on the way in the app’s private messages for photos and videos.. The advisable thing to have the maximum security in the applications is to have them updated.