Facebook is testing encrypted, secret, self-destructing Messenger chats

Need more security in your Facebook messaging, but not willing to switch to a security-oriented service such as Telegram? We've got good news: Facebook is testing a far more secure type of Messenger conversation, with several interesting features. 

These "secret conversations," which are currently only available as an option for a small subset of users, are end-to-end encrypted, ideally meaning that even Facebook can't read them. 

As an additional layer of security, a message sent this way can only be read on one of the devices belonging to the message recipient. You can also set a timer that makes the message self-destruct after a certain amount of time.  Read more...