Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption fails

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Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption fails

Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook's plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Messages on the web for a small percentage of users around the globe, a year after TechCrunch reported it was testing web DMs.

When fully rolled out, Instagram tells us its website users will be able to see when they've received new DMs, view their whole inbox, start new message threads or group chats, send photos (but not capture them), double click to Like and share posts from their feed via Direct so they can gossip or blast friends with memes. You won't be able to send videos, but can view non-disappearing ones. Instagram's CEO Adam Mosseri tweeted that he hopes to "bring this to everyone soon" once the kinks are worked out.

Web DMs could help office workers, students and others stuck on a full-size computer all day or who don't have room on their phone for another app to spend more time and stay better connected on Instagram. Direct is crucial to Instagram's efforts to stay ahead of Snapchat, which has seen its Stories product mercilessly copied by Facebook but is still growing thanks to its rapid fire visual messaging feature that's popular with teens.

But as Facebook's former Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos tweeted, "This is fascinating, as it cuts directly against the announced goal of E2E encrypted compatibility between FB/IG/WA. Nobody has ever built a trustworthy web-based E2EE messenger, and I was expecting them to drop web support in FB Messenger. Right hand versus left?"

A year ago Facebook announced it planned to eventually unify Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Insta



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