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offering me end-to-end encrypted chat
No one - not even X - can access or read your messages
This key is then stored on X’s servers
So...they're just blatantly lying?
Right, they have the key, and the lock, but the key isn't in the lock, so it's utterly impossible for them to access it.
Typical corpo doublespeak
It's encrypted with a 4 digit pin so they'll have to spend at least 316.8809e-10 years on brute-forcing it.
That's why my PIN is 5 digits: 12345
One. Two. Three. Four. Five?
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
No - did you even read the article? An x employee confirmed that they’re using the “special” servers to store the keys that mean that they cannot see them. The author then says that the employee confirming it doesn’t mean they do, because the author doesn’t want it to be true.
TL;dr of the article :
- They keep your private key on their servers.
- Their implementation allows for AITM attacks.
- It's closed source.
- There's no perfect forward secrecy.
This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.
I hope politicians use the hell out of it, so we can see what they really think when it gets (inevitably) hacked in a few weeks.
They keep your private key on their servers.
Then it's literally not even E2EE, lol
If you chat on Xitter you‘re chatting with mecha Hitler.
What is the "A" in "AITM"?
This is the first time I heard of AITM, thought it was a new name for MITM:
It’s just MITM but with extra steps
Elon.
Apple
Anal
Administrator
Aliens
Anyone
They are stupid, but not that stupid.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
It’s like a regular encrypted chat but with peepholes and racism.
YET?
I wouldnt trust X with a picture of my shoes
How about: "You probably should trust or use X at all... ever."
Don't trust it at all.
...yet? How bout just not trusting it at all?
Why are people evening using this site anymore? It’s been severely compromised.
Hey y'all. Reminder not to trust a platform owned and operated by a Nazi manchild.
That "yet" is the narrative hook to trick us into feeling like it will soon be trustworthy, and that our assumed suspicions refer to a temporary state of untrustworthiness. Clever girls!
Never trust any social media sites "private" chat.
Especially not one of the big ones run by weirdo fascists. You know Elmo is going to snoop on anyone relatively famous, or that just say something he doesn't like.
In all honesty, there's zero reason to even have accounts on them
It's proprietary, how could you possibly trust it?
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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