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X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch
Submitted 5 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 5 months ago
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Ah, new ways for Kegsbreath to expose his idiocy.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
shouldn’t trust it yetshouldn’t trust it everHubertManne@piefed.social 5 months ago
probably??? try definitely and ever
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
“The guy who helped install Donald Trump, did a Nazi Salute at Trump’s victory parade on live TV, supports authoritarians, and who has declared war on transgender people to the point you’re not allowed to say “Cis” or “Cisgender” on his platform, has created an end to end encrypted chat.”
All of this has the same vibes as the time Brigham Young University amended their code of conduct to allow people to come out as queer, let some students come out, and then changed the CoC back and expelled the students.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
XChat, has some red flags.
With a white circle and a swastika inside?
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Shouldn’t trust it yet.
Or ever.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“xchat” sounds like one of those porn chat rooms
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I trust it but there is a major misunderstanding of end to end encryption. Some implementations the platform holder does not have a key to decrypt data but it is far from a requirement. All end to end means is there’s a blocker preventing the network from seeing what you send not twitter who im assuming has a copy of the key.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That is NOT end to end encryption. That is transport layer encryption. So basically SSL
End to end is from sender to recipient. No one in the middle should be able to read anything
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s like ssl but done at the application layer. Nobody in the middle can read it except it’s nobody in the middle of you and twitter and twitter and the recipient. If you put something on a platform and they have the key they will always be able to read it if they want to.
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you trust ANYTHING Musk has for you well then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey y’all. Reminder not to trust a platform owned and operated by a Nazi manchild.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yet? More like never.
edgarzen@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Signal and encrypted email only.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Friends and I swapped our group chat to Signal the day Trump was inaugurated…the first time.
If things keep going the way they are, no one should be communicating on anything but encrypted messaging apps.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LOL nope. I’d use anything else.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t trust anything coming out of Elon’s fascisthole. Deleted the app when he bought it and never looked back.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I refuse to even click on links. If a friend sends me an X link to something funny/interesting I tell them “I don’t click on Nazi links” and ask them to find me another source.
Netrunner@programming.dev 5 months ago
Brain damaged people trust x again.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why are people evening using this site anymore? It’s been severely compromised.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
most likely vendor lockin and i hate it its common on social media.
TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Cause it has an audience unlike mastodon or bluesky. All the other alternatives are dead.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
bluesky has a bigger audience then mastodon tho,but most people i see there still use twitter.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 months ago
Your hero just joined bluesky so not that dead
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What some call “normies” besides most celebrities.
br0da@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s like a regular encrypted chat but with peepholes and racism.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
YET?
Pondis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wouldnt trust X with a picture of my shoes
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 5 months ago
How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”
Zeon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s proprietary, how could you possibly trust it?
lando55@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Do you think this is the face of a liar
Etzello@midwest.social 5 months ago
The face of this liar makes my face go on fire
TomMasz@piefed.social 5 months ago
Or ever.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Don’t trust it at all.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I do really like E2EE but why do I need it in everything?
If I want to talk to someone I would rather them message me on Signal or something that I trust more.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 5 months ago
Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Or ever
artyom@piefed.social 5 months ago
offering me end-to-end encrypted chat
No one - not even X - can access or read your messages
This key is then stored on X’s servers
So…they’re just blatantly lying?
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s encrypted with a 4 digit pin so they’ll have to sped at least 316.8809e-10 years on brute-forcing it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 months ago
The Muskrat lying? No, never!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 months ago
No - did you even read the article? An x employee confirmed that they’re using the “special” servers to store the keys that mean that they cannot see them. The author then says that the employee confirming it doesn’t mean they do, because the author doesn’t want it to be true.
Natanael@infosec.pub 5 months ago
There are hardware for that called hardware security modules, but yeah I definitely wouldn’t trust Twitter’s implementation - especially because they probably just need the auth team to tell the HSM that the user logged in when they didn’t to get that key
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Right, the have the key, and the lock, but the key isn’t in the lock, so it’s utterly impossible for them to access it.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Typical corpo doublespeak
Mohamad20ZX@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I hope Elon musk gets cancelled(cancer) for this useless nonsensical black box