Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, May 11th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter finally rolled out encrypted DMs, or did they?

More drips from yesterday's Google event,

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that sounds pretty wild.

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and why tech has warmed up to the concept of near-shoring. pivoting.

here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

From the, they finally did it but maybe not the way you wanted file

Twitter has rolled out encrypted d.m. but both sender and recipient must be verified users. There's no support for group messages and

message metadata is not encrypted. In fact, there's kind of a question of what encryption we're actually talking about here, quoting and

gadget. It doesn't support group messages or any kind of media other than links

and the level of encryption appears to be less secure than what other apps offer.

For one, message metadata is not encrypted.

Furthermore, Twitter notes that, quote, currently,

we do not offer protection against man in the middle attacks

and suggest that the company itself is still able to

access encrypted dams without the participants knowing. 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 the receiver would know the company

explains on a help page. It added that it's working on improvements that would

make such exploits more quote difficult. That's particularly that's when expressing his desire to add encryption for Twitter

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