[tesseractive]

Selling your encrypted data seems like a somewhat more difficult proposition for them than the one social networking services usually have.

[dce]

Do you not understand how encryption works, or do I?

[tesseractive]

If they have the ability to decrypt data on their server anytime they want then this whole thing seems utterly pointless. I sincerely hope that's not the case.

[dce]

Sorry for being flippant. I'm just having a hard time imagining how I could post something that you could read that's somehow unreadable to them.

[bo1024]

That's the entire point of the service being discussed, no?

[buro9]

Define "them".

If "them" = Facebook or Twitter... it's true, they could not read the text.

But if "them" = the service provider of the encrypted messages, well, I suspect that they can decrypt from their description. Which means that they can be compelled to decrypt, or that a member of staff could access the decrypted message... in which case we only have an illusion of privacy because it only gives us privacy from some parties and not others.