Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat

• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When has X under Musk had anything happen to doubt their encryption?

  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.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most recently, the new DOGE has suffered substantial security lapses,

    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?

    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.

    Funny that you say this after you said this:

    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.

    So twitters staff, training, technology and processes were the source of these embarrassing incidents…but then Musk shouldn’t have gotten rid of them?

    but could be disasterous for anyone relying on this new E2EE solution, if it is incorrectly implemented.

    And there’s nothing to say that it is incorrectly implemented other than hopes and dreams by people who want it to be.

    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.

    Absolutely not true lol. Secure end to end encryption is a solved problem. It’s not hard to implement.

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not hard to implement.

      Oh sweet summer child.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Software developer with 20+ years of experience here, but go on, tell me all about how it’s hard :)

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  nbcnews.com/…/twitter-suspends-journalists-coveri…

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rules were put in place to stop trackers like that as they are massive security risks, borderline doxing.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      forbes.com/…/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-eve…

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes they comply with the laws of the countries that they operate in. That’s part of doing business in a country. They challenge any government requested censorship in court whenever they can. No one else challenges them.

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• Blemgo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

  • He got thrown out of PayPal for his incessant micromanagement and disruptions to the flow of the company
  • he bought himself into Tesla to replace the CEO with himself
  • he tends to depict himself as one of the greatest tech geniuses out there, yet often the plans he presents to the public are often poorly thought out and serve no other purpose than to show his "talents"
  • when his proposal to build a tiny submarine for the Than Luang cave rescue was shot down and a British diver was chosen instead he resorted to call the diver a "pedo guy"
  • his latest attempts in politics, especially concerning DOGE feel completely half baked and, again, how he presents himself in his position feels more like an ego trip than something more reasonable
  • he publicly had talks with the controversial German political party “Alternative für Deutschland”, which are currently legally considered “assured right-wing extremists” and have had a history of having Nazis and Nazi sympathisers in their ranks

  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.

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