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
It’s encrypted with a 4 digit pin so they’ll have to spend at least 316.8809e-10 years on brute-forcing it.
That’s why my PIN is 5 digits: 12345
One. Two. Three. Four. Five?
That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.
Suck. Suck. Suck. Suck!
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.
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
A proper implementation would use multiple security measures and require a reset (delete) of certain private account data before the account access can be reset, otherwise the user’s password would be needed (for key derivation) or some other secret held by the user’s devices (in the TPM chip or equivalent)
So again, you think you know better than the employee simply because you want it to be done incorrectly.
I’ve run a cryptography forum for 10 years. I can tell snake oil from the real deal.
Musk’s Twitter doesn’t know how to do key distribution. The only major company using HSMs the way Musk intends to is Apple, and they have far more and much more experienced cryptographers than X does.
So again - you just don’t want it to be true, and you think the people that know more than you about it are lying.
You sound like an antivaxxer defending a crank
You sound like a conspiracy theorist defending wearing an aluminium foil hat.
The Muskrat lying? No, never!
Hey y’all. Reminder not to trust a platform owned and operated by a Nazi manchild.
Shouldn’t trust it yet.
Or ever.
XChat, has some red flags.
With a white circle and a swastika inside?
Brain damaged people trust x again.
“xchat” sounds like one of those porn chat rooms
probably??? try definitely and ever
If you trust ANYTHING Musk has for you well then have I got a bridge to sell you.
How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”
YET?
Yet? More like never.
“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.
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.
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
shouldn’t trust it yetshouldn’t trust it ever
