Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.

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• ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They need to add a backdoor

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that is my first thought as well.

    “Shoot we didn’t take into consideration that GROK will need to be able to see these somehow, so now we need to redo it”

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    • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bold of you to assume weren’t already able to do it

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just assumed it was elon trying decrypt old messages to make trump people happy so they go after individuals

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People need to stop going on Twitter…

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lemmy instance admins don’t even need a backdoor to read your “private” messages btw.

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  • guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    a? as in one?

    every agency gets their own key.

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• Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  while we work on making improvements

  🤣

  The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.

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  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Improvements” = Adding backdoors to their encryption for agency spying networks.

    This is how that works.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m more than confident that Twitter already had a backdoor for encrypted DMs.

      However, I would bet cash money that the current administration has lost the institutional knowledge of how to use it. So they’re having to reinvent the wheel, most likely by injecting a bunch of new bugs and sloppily implemented hacks.

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• iconic_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So… they’re definitely adding some spying capabilities.

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  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    100%. If it was purely a migration, it wouldn’t need to have downtime. There’s ways to replay events and eventually catch a system up (eventual consistency models).

    This feels more like they’re adding backdoor into their encryption algorithms for government agencies.

    Given who musk is, and what he’s done the last year and who he’s hanging out with in this admin, that’s a near sure thing.

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• notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I doubt this is news to most folks on the Fediverse, but don’t trust Twitter, Facebook, or any company whose business model is advertising to secure your private conversations.

  Even if they aren’t up to no good today, it is only a matter of time until they come for your messages.

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  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh man I may have to stop using this fascist propaganda service now.

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• MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I thought they disabled DMs when some influencer refused to have Elon Musk’s babies and shared her DMs with a friend

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• starkzarn@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They misspelled “backdoors.”

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Three years later…

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  • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “We are excited to announce the new encrypted messaging feature that is going to be released soon™”

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  • cron@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “With the latest update, you are now unable to read any encrypted PMs before may 2025. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      More like, "for your convenience, we have decrypted all of your encrypted PMs before May 2025

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• KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re being rerouted to a more “secure” storage facility. I believe it’s Kaspersky’s.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is not Kaspersky part of the US government embargo on Russian companies?

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• ne0phyte@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I would not trust any company/website to properly encrypt any important messages in the first place so I don’t care whether they add a backdoor (and I’ve never had a Twitter account anyway).

  …but it sounds like a really shitty development/release process to me. Why would you disable something while whatever is to come in its place is not ready yet?

  Why not do the development first and then migrate when it’s actually ready lol

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There may be several reasons for this. If I had to guess, they found a critical flaw and had to shut it down for security reasons.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And there we have it - new fully encrypted chat launched on X.

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• nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just use PGP everywhere, it doesn’t matter where you chat then.

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• bender223@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  elon is the dumbest “genius” ever 🤦‍♂️

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  • Alistaire@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    he’s just rich but likes to pretend smart

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think there was a once a time in which he did some smart stuff (although he gets a ton a credit for stuff his employies do), but since he starting taking all those drugs he became actually insane and stupid

    like theres actually no benefit of any sort to do a fucking Nazi salute

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Before too many more conspiracy theorists jump in - it looks like they’re replacing encrypted DMs with “chat” where EVERYTHING is encrypted:

  x.com/P4mui/status/1927829200599224624

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re moving to IRC?

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    • tarknassus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Last update 2010. Makes me sad. Good times using IRC, I should find a modern program and get back on there.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haha yeh that person probably should have seen if XChat was already taken, but you know what they meant.

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  • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Will they be using a modern encryption protocol this time?

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do people really use DMs there?

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For spamming ads and scams to people? Absolutely.

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