X/Twitter Pause Encrypted DMs.
X/Twitter Pause Encrypted DMs.
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They need to add a backdoor
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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"
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a? as in one?
every agency gets their own key.
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while we work on making improvements
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The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.
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"Improvements" = Adding backdoors to their encryption for agency spying networks.
This is how that works.
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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.
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Oh man I may have to stop using this fascist propaganda service now.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And I treat this platform accordingly. There is no expectation of privacy here. You are a private as you choose to be.
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So… they’re definitely adding some spying capabilities.
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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.
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Three years later…
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"We are excited to announce the new encrypted messaging feature that is going to be released soon™"
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"With the latest update, you are now unable to read any encrypted PMs before may 2025. Sorry for the inconvenience."
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More like, "for your convenience, we have decrypted all of your encrypted PMs before May 2025 and included them in this plaintext document"
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They're being rerouted to a more "secure" storage facility. I believe it's Kaspersky's.
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Is not Kaspersky part of the US government embargo on Russian companies?
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I thought they disabled DMs when some influencer refused to have Elon Musk’s babies and shared her DMs with a friend
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They misspelled "backdoors."
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elon is the dumbest "genius" ever 🤦♂️
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he's just rich but likes to pretend smart
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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
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Do people really use DMs there?
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For spamming ads and scams to people? Absolutely.
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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
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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.
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Just use PGP everywhere, it doesn't matter where you chat then.
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Before too many more conspiracy theorists jump in - it looks like they're replacing encrypted DMs with "chat" where EVERYTHING is encrypted:
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They're moving to IRC?
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Will they be using a modern encryption protocol this time?
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And there we have it - new fully encrypted chat launched on X.
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