New warnings this week should be a serious reality check for Meta/Facebook’s more than 3 billion messaging users across WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger; here’s what you need to know..., forcing the messenger’s boss Will Cathcart to defend the integrity of its security, has highlighted—yet again—the awkward truth that has shadowed WhatsApp’s success: Facebook aka Meta.
Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014. The platform has five-times as many users now as it did then, it also enabled end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls between those users by default in 2016. WhatsApp might be Meta’s largest messaging platform, but Meta also has Facebook Messenger, which in itself has more than a billion users; it is also default end-to-end encrypted
WhatsApp takes the credit for normalizing fully encrypted messaging and calls around the world, now protecting its 2-3 billion users. Apple may have been first with iMessage in 2011, but its user security is compromised by its restriction to Apple’s walled garden, still reverting to SMS. RCS on iMessage may be due in the fall, but it’s expected to launch absent any end-to-end encryption.
But the reality for all of us is that without Meta, without WhatsApp and even Messenger, fully encrypted comms would be denied to billions of users around thew world. The alternative is an iPhone-only or Android-only halfway house, or a specialist product such as Signal, or buying into Telegram’s misleading privacy ads and using a platform that doesn't offer any default end-to-end encryption at all.
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