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Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo
2016-05-21 15:06:03 Post No. 54668485
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Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo
Anonymous
2016-05-21 15:06:03
Post No. 54668485
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>A co-leader on Google's product security team has waved a piece of red meat in front of already frothing privacy advocates by deleting part of a blog post saying he wished the Allo messenger app the company announced Wednesday would provide end-to-end encryption by default.
>To critics, the deletion by Thai Duong amounted to tacit admission that his employer was willfully choosing to leave messages sent by the vast number of Allo users open to government surveillance. The critics have argued that because end-to-end encryption will be turned off by default and turned on only in an incognito mode, most users will never avail themselves of the protection.
