Facebook announced the appearance of “secret talks” in his messenger – RBC

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Facebook begins test encrypted messages in their messenger Facebook Messenger. They will be called “secret conversations»

Social network Facebook announced that starting to test the encrypted message in his messenger Facebook Messenger. On Friday in the application will “limited” testing a new feature – “secret talks” that are protected by the “terminal encryption”, that is only available to a particular user on a particular device, according to a social network message

In “. secret talks “will be also an opportunity to set a timer that will determine the length of time your messages will be visible to the recipient, after which it will self-destruct.

Correspondence and voice calls to Messenger now seriously protected, according to the reported, but there are situations where users want to learn more about securing your communications, for example when discussing the health information or sending financial information accountant, so Facebook’s management believes it necessary to introduce new features

Encryption messenger is optional -. the user he can decide whether he wants to correspond through the normal chat, or through further protected, since access to the correspondence in the “secret conversation” can not be obtained from all devices where you are logged into Facebook Messenger, but only one device on which it was launched . social network management also emphasizes that while in “secret talks” will not be available broadcast “heavy content”, such as video, the GIF-animations or conducting transactions to pay anything (Not available for Russia).

Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular instant messengers in the world in terms of audience size – in April, the founder of the social network Mark Zuckerberg said that his average monthly audience of 900 million users. Also owned by Facebook messenger WhatsApp, the audience is more than 1 billion people in April introduced a terminal encryption of messages and voice calls to all its users.

In Russia, on the eve of President Vladimir Putin signed the “anti-terrorism package” of bills, which, among other things, obliges the messengers, social networks and other Internet services, through which users exchange messages, transfer FSB “information necessary to decode” messages. Otherwise, they face a fine of up to 1 million rubles.