#Social Media — Kunal Ganglani

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Meta's Default Encryption for Messenger: Why Governments Are Furious and What It Actually Means

Meta finally flipped the switch on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger. Billions of messages are now unreadable by anyone but sender and recipient. Law enforcement is furious.

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