Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.

notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As it happens, you shouldn’t trust Lemmy DMs either, as they’re not encrypted and can be read by instance administrators. So don’t use them to say anything that you wouldn’t be okay making public.

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  • ferrule@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    this should be the default stance when using any built in encryption. always separate the mode of encryption from the mode of transmission.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Someone told me they are public some months ago? Like if someone wanted to look up your lemmy DMs they could.

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There was an exploit in version 0.17.0 through 0.19.0 (fixed in 0.19.1) that, from what I understand, allowed people to view DMs of anyone by reporting them, but as you can’t know the ID of a given DM you’re not part of, they couldn’t really target a specific user, but rather would just send reports to a range of potential IDs and see what comes back.

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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve been hearing a lot of straight up adverts about WhatsApp recently, which I found interesting.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I saw a WhatsApp ad on Prime. And it was focused on the encryption aspect “WhatsApp can’t even read your messages” or whatever.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m hearing a lot of that on the radio.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re saying this on a platform that has no business model for making money and basically has no security or privacy because you’re trusting whichever random people run the instances.

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  • notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And I treat this platform accordingly. There is no expectation of privacy here. You are a private as you choose to be.

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