> Both executives mention the danger end-to-end encryption poses to children when attached to a social media graph

So the fact that we welded a messaging platform onto a global-child-discovery-service is bad? Sure. Not encrypting that messaging platform is sort of closing the barn door after the horse has gone walkabout

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oscaracso 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It is a considerably larger threat for anonymous strangers to be able to establish private lines of communication with children than for them to know that Lisa Simpson (8) lives in Springfield and attends Springfield Elementary. In terms of discovery, most people are already aware that children can be found in school.

	▲	swiftcoder an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't see how you arrive at that conclusion? The risk in being able to connect to a random victim somewhere in the world appears to be strictly less than being able to target a specific victim in your local geographical area to whom you could gain physical access Hence why nobody up in arms (in either direction) about e2e encryption for Chatroulette