A company like Facebook whose history is all about respecting user privacy introducing such a flaw deliberately? Preposterous!
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Are you kidding? How are they supposed to do things like sentiment analysis and sell the results if they don’t have a backdoor into encrypted messages – especially if encryption becomes more widely used.* This is a company that grabs at whatever data they can to make more money (because for the shareholders “a ton of money” is never enough). This isn’t conspiracy mongering, it’s recognising how Facebook operates as a business.
[* also, how are they supposed to cave quickly and cravenly to government demands for individual users’ data?]
