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Can you keep a secret? Facebook brings encrypted secret conversations to Messenger

October 7, 2016

Do you like privacy? Well, let me introduce you to a new player in the encrypted messaging game: Secret Conversations. It comes from a messaging service many are already using, Facebook Messenger.

The service is currently available to all users of Messenger on Android and iOS, and it provides optional end-to-end encryption for users. Secret Conversations are available only for one-to-one conversations and will not tie into past chats with a user — meaning that if you were talking with a coworker via Messenger for months, the new secret message would not retrofit the past conversation into a private encrypted thread; instead it would begin a new and separate conversation.

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