Elon Musk managed to deliver the new security feature within his self-imposed deadline, but apparently at the expense of quality.
for Lauren Leffer
Gizmodo
Excerpts:
Twitter did it. The company met a deadline and released something on the promised date under the leadership of Elon Musk. The social media platform released its first encrypted messaging option on Wednesday night, just under the wire. However, in the crazy course of delivering, the site seems to have made some confusing compromises, as described in a Twitter post.
For online privacy in broad terms, it’s definitely a good thing. But Twitter’s version comes with some important caveats. For one thing, it’s only available to “verified” users, meaning those with access are almost entirely people willing to pay $8 a month for Twitter Blue. Both parties in an encrypted Twitter exchange must be verified for the feature to work.
Second, it’s “opt-in,” meaning users must consciously choose encryption every time. This is towards the security gold standard of default encryption. Facebook/Meta, for example, have faced years of questioning from privacy experts over their own Messenger end-to-end encryption, which recently became the default setting.
Then there are the user limitations. Twitter’s version of secure direct messages only allows text transmission. Image and other multimedia messages cannot currently be encrypted on the platform. Only individual conversations are covered, group messages are not. There is no way to report abusive encrypted messages.
Beyond user disappointments, on the back end, there are additional weaknesses in Twitter’s new security settings. To the company’s credit, its first stab at encrypted DMs isn’t perfect.
“When it comes to direct messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our head, we still can’t access your messages,” the blog post on Wednesday said, citing an earlier tweet from Musk. “We’re not quite there yet,” he continues.
As Twitter notes in its own statement, its version of encryption does not necessarily protect against man-in-the-middle attacks. This means that a technically competent bad actor or Twitter itself could theoretically intercept messages without the sender’s knowledge.
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Posted on May 11, 2023
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