Encrypted messages are also limited to text and links photos, video and other attachments aren’t supported yet, the company says. Twitter says it will “soon” be expanding encryption to groups. For instance, Twitter’s encrypted messages can only be sent to another individual. Twitter also doesn’t offer any way to report encrypted messages for harassment or abuse, although it will be possible to block individual senders. “The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if there was a gun to my head,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday. Twitter itself, in fact, has the ability to do this. For the moment, its encrypted messages are vulnerable to a so-called “man-in-the-middle” attack that allows an attacker to insinuate themselves into an encrypted conversation to listen in and even modify messages as they’re sent. Twitter’s service doesn’t currently do that. The gold standard in secure messaging is set by services such as Signal and ProtonMail, which use strong “end-to-end” encryption to shield messages so that no one else - not even the companies themselves - can read them. SO HOW DOES TWITTER’S NEW ENCRYPTION STACK UP?
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