In a move taken straight from Mission: Impossible—or straight from Snapchat—Facebook has begun testing a way for Messenger users to send encrypted conversations that disappear after a certain period of time.
In a post on Facebook this morning, David Marcus, Facebook’s head of Messenger, said the company has begun testing end-to-end encryption as a way to provide additional security and privacy to messages. He said certain Messenger features don’t yet work with end-to-end encryption, such as cross-device conversations, archived messages and GIFs.
