I saw a shop about him buying McDonalds and fixing the ice cream machines, got a good laugh out of me. The fact he actually responded to it as well made it funnier.
All private messaging should be end-to-end encrypted. There's really no excuse at this point for it not to be. It can be seamless.
And the importance of this goes beyond whether or not you trust Twitter and the government with your messages. Even if you trust Twitter as a corporation, and trust every single person they employ, and your government, you should still want end-to-end encryption.
Why? Because no website is unhackable.
Twitter themselves were recently hacked in a big way: fake tweets promoting a crypto scam came from major accounts like Obama, Elon Musk, etc. The details of this hack haven't been released, but it is speculated to be a social engineering attack that gave them access to do this on all of these huge accounts. There is no reason why this hack, or a hack similar to it, couldn't also give them access to everyone's private messages, which they could then store offline.
Why would a hacker want to do this? Why would a hacker care about your DMs when you're a nobody? If I were nefarious and found myself with a database of every single person's private messages, I would write an algorithm that searches this database for private shit. It could be as basic as looking for keywords like "sex" or more advanced like searching images for predominantly flesh tones. This software could then automatically send its findings to the user with a blackmail demand. If it doesn't receive the demand within a timeframe, it could automatically send these findings to all of their followers.
Sure, depending on how basic or advanced the algorithm is, there may be a lot of false positives. But would you want to risk your private messages to anyone being exposed to everyone?
Or, if they don't want to monetize it, they could just publish the database in its entirety. Once it's on the open internet, it's never going away. Perhaps a terrorist does this with all american accounts to hurt the country? How damaging would it be for everyone's private messages to be in a searchable database? Perhaps they could blackmail an entire country with the threat of releasing the database?
And, the worst part is, if you've ever sent something you wish to keep private on one of these services, you are forever at risk of this happening, because there is essentially no way to guarantee it gets deleted from their server. Even if you delete the message on your end, and convince the recipient to delete it on their end, it very likely stays on the server forever.
Speaking to that last bit, there should be legislation regarding the handling of private data stored on servers, including private messages.
Since ruling that a young child saying "no" in German means the diverse rapist couldn't understand the child did not consent to getting ass-raped at the pool. #RefugeeWelcome
( Yes I know, German court, not EU court. It's still standart EU degeneracy. )
This is unironically some of the most reassuring news for people concerned about Elon-Twitter.
The biggest concern I've heard was the focus on verifying humans & the anti-anon potential this implies. If Elon is encouraging E2E encryption and other types of pro-privacy measures then it suggests anons won't be screwed
So Antifa organized riots and arson nation-wide over clear-text private messaging and only like two or three shlubs unfortunate enough to be caught in person have seen any kind of trial at all.
If you needed any clues to which side Homeland Security is on, here's a big one.
This is unironically some of the most reassuring news for people concerned about Elon-Twitter.
The biggest concern I've heard was the focus on verifying humans & the anti-anon potential this implies. If Elon is encouraging E2E encryption and other types of pro-privacy measures then it suggests anons won't be screwed
I saw a shop about him buying McDonalds and fixing the ice cream machines, got a good laugh out of me. The fact he actually responded to it as well made it funnier.
All private messaging should be end-to-end encrypted. There's really no excuse at this point for it not to be. It can be seamless.
And the importance of this goes beyond whether or not you trust Twitter and the government with your messages. Even if you trust Twitter as a corporation, and trust every single person they employ, and your government, you should still want end-to-end encryption.
Why? Because no website is unhackable.
Twitter themselves were recently hacked in a big way: fake tweets promoting a crypto scam came from major accounts like Obama, Elon Musk, etc. The details of this hack haven't been released, but it is speculated to be a social engineering attack that gave them access to do this on all of these huge accounts. There is no reason why this hack, or a hack similar to it, couldn't also give them access to everyone's private messages, which they could then store offline.
Why would a hacker want to do this? Why would a hacker care about your DMs when you're a nobody? If I were nefarious and found myself with a database of every single person's private messages, I would write an algorithm that searches this database for private shit. It could be as basic as looking for keywords like "sex" or more advanced like searching images for predominantly flesh tones. This software could then automatically send its findings to the user with a blackmail demand. If it doesn't receive the demand within a timeframe, it could automatically send these findings to all of their followers.
Sure, depending on how basic or advanced the algorithm is, there may be a lot of false positives. But would you want to risk your private messages to anyone being exposed to everyone?
Or, if they don't want to monetize it, they could just publish the database in its entirety. Once it's on the open internet, it's never going away. Perhaps a terrorist does this with all american accounts to hurt the country? How damaging would it be for everyone's private messages to be in a searchable database? Perhaps they could blackmail an entire country with the threat of releasing the database?
And, the worst part is, if you've ever sent something you wish to keep private on one of these services, you are forever at risk of this happening, because there is essentially no way to guarantee it gets deleted from their server. Even if you delete the message on your end, and convince the recipient to delete it on their end, it very likely stays on the server forever.
Speaking to that last bit, there should be legislation regarding the handling of private data stored on servers, including private messages.
Heck - twitter wasn’t merely hacked.
Twitter got infiltrated by Saudi spies and allegedly caused the death and torture of many journalists.
Twitter’s “trust and safety team” score : -100
But causing the death of journalists is a good thing
Depends if they were transgender women of color or not?
no people, then?
Probably fake but he should.
It's legit
I agree, I've been saying we need to just cut the shit, and cut the brick this whole time.
Also wants to buy Australia to free it, lol. If he can outbid China. ;)
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1519504503661535237/photo/1
That will be hard, china already owns like half of it :P
I feel like Europe is beyond saving at this point.
Europe is easier to save than the US.
EU saves children, since when?
Since ruling that a young child saying "no" in German means the diverse rapist couldn't understand the child did not consent to getting ass-raped at the pool. #RefugeeWelcome
( Yes I know, German court, not EU court. It's still standart EU degeneracy. )
"I thought he meant he wanted to be fucked nine times!"
They save children.
For themselves.
This is unironically some of the most reassuring news for people concerned about Elon-Twitter.
The biggest concern I've heard was the focus on verifying humans & the anti-anon potential this implies. If Elon is encouraging E2E encryption and other types of pro-privacy measures then it suggests anons won't be screwed
So Antifa organized riots and arson nation-wide over clear-text private messaging and only like two or three shlubs unfortunate enough to be caught in person have seen any kind of trial at all.
If you needed any clues to which side Homeland Security is on, here's a big one.
All those requests ended with the government knowing nothing about the signal users?
That seems like a great success for the citizens.
The snoopers in government are probably sending 10x that number of requests off to facebook/reddit/thisSite and getting them regularly satisfied!
This is unironically some of the most reassuring news for people concerned about Elon-Twitter.
The biggest concern I've heard was the focus on verifying humans & the anti-anon potential this implies. If Elon is encouraging E2E encryption and other types of pro-privacy measures then it suggests anons won't be screwed