of course the subtext here is that FB currently can and does snoop on these services (which is certainly no surprise to the HN crowd).
regardless, IMHO this is refreshing news in that a media barrage of bad publicity over privacy concerns has actually caused one of the largest companies in the world to change their behavior (assuming Zuck follows through on this promise to the full extent).
Facebook’s third act: Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model
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#22> The apps will be integrated, he said, and messages sent through > them encrypted end-to-end, so that even Facebook cannot read them. Why do I have difficulty believing that? Maybe Zukerberg meant Facebook would always be one end of the end-to-end, and the reporter _assumed_ that Facebook cannot read the messages. Sorry to be skeptical about this. But I just am.
Wait, Mark Zuckerberg decided to use the term E2E but actually change it's real meaning to complete opposite? That's some 1984 crap right there. E2E with "Facebook being one end" essentially means normal SSL!
No, that's something that happened only in DannyB2's mind (I was confused for a moment because DannyB is usually reasonable, the 2 has sure changed him).