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Just use PGP everywhere, it doesn’t matter where you chat then.
They need to add a backdoor
a? as in one?
every agency gets their own key.
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”
Bold of you to assume they weren’t already able to do it
I mean fair, but when Encrypted DM went live, Twitter was just starting to get into the AI field, and it was amidst a very uncertain state at that time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they haden’t even thought of it.
I just assumed it was elon trying decrypt old messages to make trump people happy so they go after individuals
People need to stop going on Twitter…
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The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.
“Improvements” = Adding backdoors to their encryption for agency spying networks.
This is how that works.
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.
I just like the idea that previous administrations just delete all of the documentation on the way out, rather like a fired sysadmin worker deleting all their automation scripts. “Work it out for yourself”
Oh man I may have to stop using this fascist propaganda service now.
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.
I’ve been hearing a lot of straight up adverts about WhatsApp recently, which I found interesting.
So… they’re definitely adding some spying capabilities.
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.
They’re being rerouted to a more “secure” storage facility. I believe it’s Kaspersky’s.
elon is the dumbest “genius” ever 🤦♂️
he’s just rich but likes to pretend smart
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
I thought they disabled DMs when some influencer refused to have Elon Musk’s babies and shared her DMs with a friend
They misspelled “backdoors.”
Do people really use DMs there?
For spamming ads and scams to people? Absolutely.
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
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.
