Some time ago it was learned that Facebook was working on a function of secret talks for courier and today the company showed a little glimpse of this feature.
In a statement appeared on their news page , Facebook explained that while he was using a strong security system to protect its users, listened orders a sector of these claiming some additional measures to protect your account and privacy, that being the source of secret chats.
the company explained that just launched the aforementioned function for a limited number of users to test their functionality and gathering the information necessary to polish some details that are not shown satisfactory. The idea is that in the coming months all users of Facebook Messenger have this new feature.
As more than one might have guessed, the use of the aggregate is optional and a very interesting detail of secret talks it is that only can be made from a single device to maintain security. For example, if we sent a confidential message from our smartphone, the conversation can only be seen from that device and will not appear on other computers that have logged on to Facebook.
The user can choose the duration of each message, after which it will no longer appear in Facebook Messenger, which has been likened to self-destruct messages Snapchat, a function of the latter application flag. To this must be added that the format of secret messages is pretty basic, it will not support GIFs, videos and other functions.
Finally, Facebook said it works through a protocol developed by Open Whispers Systems.
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