>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.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/incensing-critics-google-engineer-ends-push-for-crypto-only-setting-in-allo/
>>54668485
>iMessages, literally just standard iPhone messaging at this point has end-to-end encryption by default without the user even realizing or caring
>Google's new messaging app requires the user to use "incognito" mode which would just clear messages
I bet that Allo is going to flop.
>>54668518
Yet another reason why Apple is /g/'s favourite company.
>Thai Duong
Kek
>>54670434
apple/10
