The day law enforcement feared has finally arrived - Facebook Messenger is now end-to-end encrypted by default. This sucks for them as it's one of the most popular messaging services in the world and people love using it for crimes. They could simply demand Meta send them chat logs between suspects and Meta had to hand it over, even if the evidence that a user could be a suspect is flimsy as hell. That can't happen now as Meta legitimately can't see what's in these messages as Messenger is now using "the Signal Protocol, and our own novel Labyrinth Protocol". It'll take "months" to implement across its 1 billion users, but it's coming and will be turned on by default. Group chats and Instagram messages will come "later".
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