Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat
yoshisaur@lemm.ee 6 days agoI think it’s because many people (including me) doubt it’s actually private and secure. The last thing you should ever trust xitter with is your piracy and security. If it actually is private and secure, that’s great
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
What are you basing your doubts on? When has X under Musk had anything happen to doubt their encryption? You think the guy fighting for free speech and ending people getting in trouble for what they say is going to lie about this?
Blemgo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m not the one who you asked, but I’d still give some feedback of my own. Musk as a person is a difficult character. I would even go as far as calling him narcissistic.
I generally can’t trust someone who seems to put himself first at everything to handle anything related to security when the role allows him to exploit it for his own gains. And I do not trust someone who supports political groups known for trying to oppress minorities to defend actual rights for free speech.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Musk routinely hires young unqualified technicians, and abused, laid off, or otherwise alienated much of the top talent at Twitter, in the name of cost savings.
There’s plenty of other stories out there of Musk’s ego interfering with his staff’s ability to do their jobs properly.
Most recently, the new DOGE has suffered substantial security lapses, associated with under-hiring and under-provisioning against cyber security threats, under Musk’s leadership.
Even before Twitter was aquired, Twitter had an embarrassing memorable history with public figures suffering from security incidents caused by Twitter’s own staff, training, technology or processes. This was arguably not a huge problem for an almost fully public messaging platform, but could be disasterous for anyone relying on this new E2EE solution, if it is incorrectly implemented.
The talent needed to correctly implement secure end to end encryption is rare, on a good day, for a good employer with a strong history of loyalty to their staff. X arguably has little to none of that going for it, today.
There’s very little reason to assume that X, under Musk’s current leadership, has correctly securely implemented end-to-end encryption, and there are reasonable reasons for people to fear that E2EE developed at X may have serious security flaws.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
Did they? What? The made up ones where people claimed that DOGE gave russian hackers access to databases despite DOGE never even requesting access to their systems?
Funny that you say this after you said this:
So twitters staff, training, technology and processes were the source of these embarrassing incidents…but then Musk shouldn’t have gotten rid of them?
And there’s nothing to say that it is incorrectly implemented other than hopes and dreams by people who want it to be.
Absolutely not true lol. Secure end to end encryption is a solved problem. It’s not hard to implement.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Oh sweet summer child.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 days ago
nbcnews.com/…/twitter-suspends-journalists-coveri…
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
Rules were put in place to stop trackers like that as they are massive security risks, borderline doxing.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 days ago
forbes.com/…/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-eve…