I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

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I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

FYI, Labour just made every Apple product in the UK less secure. All so that the state can snoop at leisure on anyone they like. (Apple refused to install a back door to let government snoops in and got rid of enhanced security instead. Like binning a door instead of cutting a skeleton key for it.)

it shouldn't be illegal to not have access to your customers' data

We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

Maybe there's something important about end-to-end encryption?! European Parliament is now recommending members use E2EE messaging because of the implications of Salt Typhoon. ht @komadori.bsky.social

"The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies."

Given that E2EE messaging is coming to Bluesky, now seems a good time to cross-post a thread of mine from Threads, briefly discussing one of the interesting non-obvious tradeoffs that we had to consider around message history.

Emma Connor and I have been ratcheting the ratchets up to 5! drive.google.com/file/d/1Wr-8...