Now, you may hit a snag at some point in the process. Doing so will turn your screen private and make the messages part of a new Secret Conversation. Before you select a friend to have a conversation with, pull the bubble in the top right to the right.

As with to any Facebook message, start by clicking on the blue “+” button.Ĥ. Note: You can always turn the feature off again by moving the toggle.ģ. On the resulting screen you will scroll down to Secret Conversations.Ģ.Turn on Secret Conversations. For purposes of writing these instructions and taking the screenshots, we used an Android device, but the process is similar in iOS.ġ. To get started, you will need to open up Facebook Messenger on your mobile device. While some will decry Secret Conversations as just another Snapchat clone or way around the data sharing of Whatsapp, it could also be seen as a way to introduce another level of privacy to the billion-plus users of Facebook Messenger who may not be into using apps like Signal, Threema, or Telegram. Unfortunately for people who are not using Messenger, Facebook does not have the infrastructure in place to manage encryption keys to desktops. RT More #privacy problems for WhatsApp my latest on #mobile #security /aB9DuQ8vz5 Users can also pull an Inspector Gadget and have messages self-destruct in as little as 5 seconds. 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. The service is currently available to all users of Messenger on Android and iOS, and it provides optional end-to-end encryption for users.

It comes from a messaging service many are already using, Facebook Messenger.

Do you like privacy? Well, let me introduce you to a new player in the encrypted messaging game: Secret Conversations.

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