It has been now demonstrated that sometimes left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Facebook is now pushing for stronger encryption.
Facebook now lets users to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile, and to sign up for encrypted Facebook notifications.
Though legal for decades now, intelligence agencies have warned that widespread use of strong encryption could endanger their data-gathering efforts.
How it works: Facebook now allows users to upload their public keys onto their profile, where they can be made visible to friends or to the public, just like other contact information is. Facebook further offers the option of encrypting notifications it sends to your email account. This provides some added protection, and also prevents your email provider from learning what you’re doing on Facebook.
If you use Gmail and have configured Facebook to send you all the notifications you can possibly configure in your Facebook settings to your Gmail account, obviously Facebook would be feeding Google ... lots of interesting information that Google could stuff into [its] database.
Using this feature further means that if your email account is hacked, or messages intercepted in transit, your Facebook notifications will be safe from prying eyes. Thorsheim believes that password reset requests are where this is most important.
Facebook now lets users to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile, and to sign up for encrypted Facebook notifications.
Though legal for decades now, intelligence agencies have warned that widespread use of strong encryption could endanger their data-gathering efforts.
How it works: Facebook now allows users to upload their public keys onto their profile, where they can be made visible to friends or to the public, just like other contact information is. Facebook further offers the option of encrypting notifications it sends to your email account. This provides some added protection, and also prevents your email provider from learning what you’re doing on Facebook.
If you use Gmail and have configured Facebook to send you all the notifications you can possibly configure in your Facebook settings to your Gmail account, obviously Facebook would be feeding Google ... lots of interesting information that Google could stuff into [its] database.
Using this feature further means that if your email account is hacked, or messages intercepted in transit, your Facebook notifications will be safe from prying eyes. Thorsheim believes that password reset requests are where this is most important.
