Elon Musk could have fired most of the workers in Twitter’s Trust & Safety division after buying the corporate in October 2022, however for over a 12 months he has been saying how Twitter DMs ought to help end-to-end encryption like Signal.
As far again as 2014, Twitter was toying with the concept of introducing encryption to forestall hackers, overbearing governments, and even Twitter itself from snooping on customers’ personal conversations – however the safety characteristic had by no means seen the sunshine of day.
And then, late final week, encrypted direct messages lastly arrived on Twitter…
…though not for many Twitter customers…
…as a result of Elon Musk had determined that solely customers who pay the $8 per-month Twitter Blue subscription for a “verified” account, can have it…
…and never if the messages contained photos, films, or different attachments…
…and never metadata comparable to who you have been sending the message to, or its creation time…
…and never if the message was being despatched to a consumer who hadn’t ponied up for their very own Twitter Blue subscription…
…after which there’s this, in Twitter’s personal phrases:
“As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can’t access your messages. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re working on it.”
Oh.
So, this isn’t really end-to-end encryption in any respect.
Because, E2E encrypted messages can solely be learn by the sender and the receiver. But, for now a minimum of, Twitter will nonetheless be capable of learn your messages.
I don’t assume it is a characteristic I might pay for. And it’s actually no competitors for different E2E encrypted messaging companies like Signal, that are free.
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