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[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They need to add a backdoor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

a? as in one?

every agency gets their own key.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Bold of you to assume they weren't already able to do it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Kowowow 3 points 1 week ago

I just assumed it was elon trying decrypt old messages to make trump people happy so they go after individuals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People need to stop going on Twitter....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy instance admins don't even need a backdoor to read your "private" messages btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Obviously...

Like, you understand someone has to monitor that shit, right?

Do people think social media DMs are supposed to be secure?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

I mean, ones that are E2E encrypted are.....

Like, you understand someone has to monitor that shit, right?

No, they don't if they're encrypted.