End-to-end Encryption
Direct messages delivered on the platform will be end-to-end encrypted, i.e. private and only readable by the sender and receiver. However, Chief executive Elon Musk has warned Twitter users to “try it, but don’t trust it yet,” taking into account that it is only an early version of the service.
Only users of Twitter Blue or those connected to verified Twitter accounts are currently able to use the service, which is not yet available to the general public. Additionally, users can only send text and links in conversations for now; media attachments cannot yet be sent.
In a post on its support site, Twitter writes “It was not quite there yet” with encryption. “While messages themselves are encrypted, metadata (recipient, creation time, etc) are not, and neither is any linked content[…]If someone – for example, a malicious insider, or Twitter itself as a result of a compulsory legal process – were to compromise an encrypted conversation, neither the sender or receiver would know,” it further read.
Online Safety Bill Criticized
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