My Facebook messenger wants to end-to-encrypt my messages but I don’t know what that means. I tried googling but still don’t get it, I’m not that great with technology. Someone please eli5
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You’re in school. You want to pass a note to Jane, but you have to pass it through Jim and John to get to her. Jim and John can read your note before she gets it.
So you seal the note. In a practical sense, Jim and John can’t read the contents of the note because Jane will kick their asses if they do. There, your information was safe from end (you) to end (Jane).
This is a modern school so you’re sending her a text from your phone. Packets are often “unwrapped” and “wrapped” as they go through the Internet. You may have encrypted that text from you to your texting service provider, but it gets unencrypted on the server for handling, then re-encrypted to be sent off to the next server, and then to Jane. Your text is only protected in transit through the Internet, but anyone at those servers can read it.
So End to End is like sealing the note, it stays encrypted until it gets to Jane’s phone.
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