There was a plugin called "Off The Record" (OTR) which would do a pk exhange and then send cipher text over the channel. It was rad. You could have e2ee over Facebook Messenger. When you opened the chat in the Facebook web ui, all you could see was the cipher-text.

Then Facebook started blocking 3rd party clients and Pidgin et-al slowly faded away.

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

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zetalyrae 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remember! I also used Pidgin OTR over the Facebook XMPP gateway. At some point Facebook started recognizing it, but not banning it: you could go to the web interface and you'd see "encrypted message" instead of noise.

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alex1138 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah but Facebook's 6 digit pin that they FORCED everyone on and severely disrupted messages and message history is totally a better system

Zuck deserves to be in prison along with other black hat hackers, this is just one of so many other things he's guilty of

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LollipopYakuza 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't understand your point. Do you mean he should go to prison for doing whatever he wants with his own product?

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alex1138 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Mark Zuckerberg hacked Crimson reporters (a Harvard newspaper) who were investigating him for Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg's company took people's API-facing emails that were in their profiles and replaced them with a facebook.com address. Mark Zuckerberg's company deleted years of his own correspondence. This in addition to things like Onavo

Yeah, I'm suggesting he go to prison for "doing whatever he wants"

	▲	CursedSilicon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have citations for these claims? To be clear. They're a weird goal post move from "FORCED a 6 digit pin"