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?
X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Typical corpo doublespeak
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The Muskrat lying? No, never!
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
…yet? How bout just not trusting it at all?
Manjushri@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hah, beat me by 17 seconds!
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That “yet” is the narrative hook to trick us into feeling like it will soon be trustworthy, and that our assumed suspicions refer to a temporary state of untrustworthiness. Clever girls!
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Feels like Bluesky’s federation promise.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think you can install your own bluseky instance and federated with others.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Correct, foolish human! Now sign up.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 weeks ago
How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey y’all. Reminder not to trust a platform owned and operated by a Nazi manchild.
Netrunner@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Brain damaged people trust x again.
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Shouldn’t trust it yet.
Or ever.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
YET?
Manjushri@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yet? What kind of idiot would imagine that X would or could provide actual secure communication?
Zeon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s proprietary, how could you possibly trust it?
lando55@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Do you think this is the face of a liar
Etzello@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
The face of this liar makes my face go on fire
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
XChat, has some red flags.
With a white circle and a swastika inside?
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you trust ANYTHING Musk has for you well then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Our good friend Elon cannot be trusted? I don’t believe you, this must be propaganda to discredit his good manners.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are people evening using this site anymore? It’s been severely compromised.
TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Cause it has an audience unlike mastodon or bluesky. All the other alternatives are dead.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Your hero just joined bluesky so not that dead
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
bluesky has a bigger audience then mastodon tho,but most people i see there still use twitter.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What some call “normies” besides most celebrities.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
most likely vendor lockin and i hate it its common on social media.
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“xchat” sounds like one of those porn chat rooms
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
probably??? try definitely and ever
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Quick everyone, install this just so that if Pete Hegseth invites people to the next airstrikes chat group, your satirical JD Vance account will be next to the real JD Vance’s account and he’ll probably add you both and figure it out later.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yet? More like never.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Pondis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wouldnt trust X with a picture of my shoes
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never trust any social media sites “private” chat.
Especially not one of the big ones run by weirdo fascists. You know Elmo is going to snoop on anyone relatively famous, or that just say something he doesn’t like.
In all honesty, there’s zero reason to even have accounts on them
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.
if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) { upload(chat.privateKey) }
TomMasz@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Or ever.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Or ever
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
edgarzen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Signal and encrypted email only.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
br0da@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s like a regular encrypted chat but with peepholes and racism.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
shouldn’t trust it yetshouldn’t trust it everZedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t trust it at all.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
What is the “A” in “AITM”?
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This is the first time I heard of AITM, thought it was a new name for MITM:
blueshielditns.com/…/man-in-the-middle-vs-adversa…
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Adversary
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s just MITM but with extra steps
lemmyman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anal
gressen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Anyone
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Aliens
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Elon.
trashboat@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Apple
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Administrator
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Asshole
pirat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agencies
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 weeks ago
Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you chat on Xitter you‘re chatting with mecha Hitler.
answersplease77@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
is it different with signal, telegram, whatsapp?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They are stupid, but not that stupid.
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.