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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It’s encrypting the messages “end-to-end” meaning the encryption/decryption takes place only in your device and the recipient’s device. This is different from the encryption happening at a middle stage, like for example you send a message, it goes to a central server, gets encrypted, then leaves, reaches another server, gets decrypted, and then reaches it’s destination. This basically means that nobody in between the two devices has access to the messages even if they have the data because it’s encrypted.
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