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Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think

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I would love if someone made a Chrome extension that encrypted all the posts and messages you put on Facebook. That is, any post you made would be made as a ciphertext, the extension would swap keys with all your friends in the background, and would decrypt their posts when displaying them to you. Sure Marky Mark still sees when you post, who you send messages to, etc. but it's a much better situation than what's goi…

If you have out-of-band connections with all your friends and you have friends who are willing to jump through weird, nerdy, technical hoops, what do you need Facebook for?

There would be no out-of-band connections. The extension uses Diffie Hellman or something to swap keys with your friends over Facebook (or maybe through a server run by the extension provider.)

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I agree strongly with you that the direction to be taken is independent messaging clients for existing messaging channels as long as those channels allow third party API use. What channel would you use to share the keys on FB? The Facebook API simply will not let you do that anymore. Direct messages have a character limit and you can't just post to someone's wall anymore. I tried working on something like this for se…

What's the point of encryption if you are going to share the keys via fb? That does not seem better than using a substitution cypher.

You use Diffie–Hellman. "Diffie–Hellman key exchange method allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure channel." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange)
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