Privnote

We all know that PGP is safer to use than privnote. I always assumed that privnote was still generally very safe though until the other day my friend was testing it out sending messages to our other friend over facebook. At first they were exchanging messages fine with no issues but then at one point all the messages started showing up as already "read" already even though neither person had read it yet. Any idea what had happened? I don't wanna put on my tinfoil hat quite yet but I can't seam to explain what else could have happened.


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[3 Points] _florida_man:

Facebook read it.

They have an automated script that fetches every link to cache a thumbnail. When that happens your message is read/deleted.

Use the password feature to prevent this.


[3 Points] darknetQuest:

I've had this happen before with a friend and myself. No clue why, but you're not alone with it. My guess is something on the server side of things or accidental refreshing of a page somehow.


[1 Points] IsThatPurple:

this is what happened to me also in Facebook. I was sending Privnotes but the recipient was telling me is "read" already and he couldn't read them


[1 Points] hdheuud:

Facebook just implemented pgp.....lol. How unsafe is that shit? Like I want one of my keys linked to me. Or Facebook to "auto-encrypt" my sensitive data. No thank you. I just won't talk about things on Facebook


[1 Points] Derrick4Real:

Get off the net and use SMS4Tor instead of promote instead.