Part 2: Privacy | Effects of social media on our lives: a detailed analysis
If you ask about security of the conversation. It is a different matter altogether.
The security issue with conversation was always present. If you wanted to hack into middle of a dialog, Medium has always been the weakest point to crack. This was the reason cryptography was invented in the first place. To get along with chat without the interference of others.
Medium regretfully, it is vulnerable point as well. It was always the race between the cryptographers and crypto analysts to beat another. To breach another’s territory, hence grabbing information. Now just it has changed the form and one more key has been added as well.
Hackers are trying to breech your systems and the engineers at the medium (Facebook, insta, twitter you get the gist.) are trying to shoo them away. When the internet has just started in 1990s. It was easy to get into someone’s personal life easily if you know some tweaks here and there. But as It has matured and stakes have risen, the security issue has also been improving as well. Now these multi-billion-dollar corporations don’t want someone else (yes it is bold on purpose) to look into their user’s data. They have invested in security, and now have made a sufficient progress as well. Facebook had intended to spend around $3.7 billion on security in 2019 alone, that is 37 with 8 zeroes behind, for a little perspective.(source)
HTTPS is almost present everywhere. The conversations are mostly encrypted.
Users also have methods to take some actions in security of their conversations, if need be, like two factor authentications, enable message or notification on phone when account logins etc. If user want to increase the security of his account, he/she has more options to do that, I doubt it was present before.
We are also witnessing an increasing investment on privacy friendly messaging and calling apps like telegram, signal etc. these applications take special care to ensure that privacy is at user's hands.
But there is another side to this argument as well, either people don’t care about privacy or they don’t know how it can be manipulated against their will. There have been instances in Facebook, WhatsApp where there were security concerns. But general public has just not given a fuck about it. They use it as extensively as they had ever before.
So, the conclusion of the security issue is that, security has increased for public. There are specialized apps and solutions if user wants to increase security. But, on contrary, public doesn’t give a fuck about it, I guess.
PS: I think it is readable? or is it not?
Rishabh
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