X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch
X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch
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?
Right, they have the key, and the lock, but the key isn't in the lock, so it's utterly impossible for them to access it.
Typical corpo doublespeak
The Muskrat lying? No, never!
...yet? How bout just not trusting it at all?
Hah, beat me by 17 seconds!
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!
Correct, foolish human! Now sign up.
How about: "You probably should trust or use X at all... ever."
Hey y'all. Reminder not to trust a platform owned and operated by a Nazi manchild.
YET?
Yet? What kind of idiot would imagine that X would or could provide actual secure communication?
Brain damaged people trust x again.
Shouldn't trust it yet.
Or ever.
It's proprietary, how could you possibly trust it?
Do you think this is the face of a liar
The face of this liar makes my face go on fire
XChat, has some red flags.
With a white circle and a swastika inside?
Our good friend Elon cannot be trusted? I don't believe you, this must be propaganda to discredit his good manners.
Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?
Why are people evening using this site anymore? It’s been severely compromised.
What some call "normies" besides most celebrities.
most likely vendor lockin and i hate it its common on social media.
Cause it has an audience unlike mastodon or bluesky. All the other alternatives are dead.
Your hero just joined bluesky so not that dead
but bluesky(i think similar to twitter but slightly lower users??) has a bigger audience then mastodon, most people i saw there still use twitter.
If you trust ANYTHING Musk has for you well then have I got a bridge to sell you.
"xchat" sounds like one of those porn chat rooms
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.
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
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)
}
Yet? More like never.
I don't trust anything coming out of Elon's fascisthole. Deleted the app when he bought it and never looked back.
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.
probably??? try definitely and ever
I wouldnt trust X with a picture of my shoes
Or ever
Or ever.
Signal and encrypted email only.
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.
"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.
It’s like a regular encrypted chat but with peepholes and racism.
shouldn't trust it yet shouldn't trust it ever
Don't trust it at all.
Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).
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.
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.
LOL nope. I'd use anything else. As in NO X.
It was eyerolling back when that dickhead decided to sell blue checkmarks instead of issuing them only to verified celebrities.
Probably shouldn't? How 'bout definitely shouldn't, ditto for Twitter in general. Give ATproto shit all you want but at least you can move to an independent PDS with it.
Granted ActivityPub is still ideal over ATproto, but both are better than a centralized black box.
Ah, new ways for Kegsbreath to expose his idiocy.
I hope Elon musk gets cancelled(cancer) for this useless nonsensical black box
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.
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
TL;dr of the article :
This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.
I hope politicians use the hell out of it, so we can see what they really think when it gets (inevitably) hacked in a few weeks.
What is the "A" in "AITM"?
This is the first time I heard of AITM, thought it was a new name for MITM:
https://www.blueshielditns.com/post/man-in-the-middle-vs-adversary-in-the-middle-understanding-the-differences-and-staying-safe
Adversary
It’s just MITM but with extra steps
Anal
Aliens
Anyone
Elon.
Apple
Asshole
Agencies
Administrator
Then it's literally not even E2EE, lol
is it different with signal, telegram, whatsapp?
If you chat on Xitter you‘re chatting with mecha Hitler.
They are stupid, but not that stupid.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.