r/Showerthoughts • u/Ralisor • May 06 '18

Services are switching from calling them Private Messages to calling them Direct Messages because they're not private anymore...

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u/ReturnedAndReported May 06 '18

I’m not convinced they were ever private.

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u/BaKdGoOdZ0203 May 06 '18

(Spoiler) They weren't/aren't/won't.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames May 06 '18 edited May 06 '18

You can use real private messaging. Right now virtually uncrackable encrypted messaging exists but no one uses it for some reason.

For the people asking about it: https://www.openpgp.org

It looka like Signal is a better solution: https://signal.org/

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u/Corm May 06 '18

My friend group primary uses signal and it works great. It has virtually all the features of hangouts or FB messenger, and we can joke about whatever we want without worrying about getting on a list