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X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ardi60@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/x-is-now-offering-me-end-to-end-encrypted-chat-you-probably-shouldnt-trust-it-yet/

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Feels like Bluesky’s federation promise.

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      • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you can install your own bluseky instance and federated with others.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Correct, foolish human! Now sign up.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)
      }
      
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  • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet? What kind of idiot would imagine that X would or could provide actual secure communication?

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  • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …yet? How bout just not trusting it at all?

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    • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hah, beat me by 17 seconds!

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  • SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.

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    • answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      is it different with signal, telegram, whatsapp?

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you chat on Xitter you‘re chatting with mecha Hitler.

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    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They keep your private key on their servers.

      Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol

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    • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is the “A” in “AITM”?

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      • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Agencies

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      • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Asshole

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      • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anal

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s just MITM but with extra steps

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      • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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      • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apple

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      • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Aliens

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      • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Administrator

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Elon.

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      • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Adversary

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      • gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anyone

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    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are stupid, but not that stupid.

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      • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

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  • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Our good friend Elon cannot be trusted? I don’t believe you, this must be propaganda to discredit his good manners.

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?

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