Just use PGP everywhere, it doesn’t matter where you chat then.
Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs.
Submitted 10 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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nebulaone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ne0phyte@feddit.org 10 months 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
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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.
starkzarn@infosec.pub 10 months ago
They misspelled “backdoors.”
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought they disabled DMs when some influencer refused to have Elon Musk’s babies and shared her DMs with a friend
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
while we work on making improvements
🤣
The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“Improvements” = Adding backdoors to their encryption for agency spying networks.
This is how that works.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They’re being rerouted to a more “secure” storage facility. I believe it’s Kaspersky’s.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
Is not Kaspersky part of the US government embargo on Russian companies?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Before too many more conspiracy theorists jump in - it looks like they’re replacing encrypted DMs with “chat” where EVERYTHING is encrypted:
Natanael@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Will they be using a modern encryption protocol this time?
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
tarknassus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Last update 2010. Makes me sad. Good times using IRC, I should find a modern program and get back on there.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Haha yeh that person probably should have seen if XChat was already taken, but you know what they meant.
iconic_admin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So… they’re definitely adding some spying capabilities.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
notannpc@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve been hearing a lot of straight up adverts about WhatsApp recently, which I found interesting.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months 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.
notannpc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And I treat this platform accordingly. There is no expectation of privacy here. You are a private as you choose to be.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 10 months 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.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone told me they are public some months ago? Like if someone wanted to look up your lemmy DMs they could.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
this should be the default stance when using any built in encryption. always separate the mode of encryption from the mode of transmission.
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Do people really use DMs there?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
For spamming ads and scams to people? Absolutely.
bender223@lemmy.today 10 months ago
elon is the dumbest “genius” ever 🤦♂️
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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
Alistaire@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
he’s just rich but likes to pretend smart
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh man I may have to stop using this fascist propaganda service now.
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ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 months ago
They need to add a backdoor
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
a? as in one?
every agency gets their own key.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People need to stop going on Twitter…
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Lemmy instance admins don’t even need a backdoor to read your “private” messages btw.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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”
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I just assumed it was elon trying decrypt old messages to make trump people happy so they go after individuals
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Bold of you to assume weren’t already able to do it
tonytins@pawb.social 10 months ago
Three years later…
cron@feddit.org 10 months ago
“With the latest update, you are now unable to read any encrypted PMs before may 2025. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
More like, "for your convenience, we have decrypted all of your encrypted PMs before May 2025
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
“We are excited to announce the new encrypted messaging feature that is going to be released soon™”
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
And there we have it - new fully encrypted chat launched on X.
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