Twitter launches encrypted DMs – but Elon Musk warns users NOT to trust the WhatsApp-style feature yet
Elon Musk has warned Twitter users that its new WhatsApp-style feature should not be trusted – after launching it just yesterday.Encrypted messaging was released on Wednesday as part of Twitter’s goal to become he ‘most trusted platform on the internet’. But Musk has now stressed the privacy feature is ‘not quite there yet’ despite his initial jokes that […]
Elon Musk has warned Twitter users that its new WhatsApp-style feature should not be trusted – after launching it just yesterday.
Encrypted messaging was released on Wednesday as part of Twitter’s goal to become he ‘most trusted platform on the internet’.
But Musk has now stressed the privacy feature is ‘not quite there yet’ despite his initial jokes that he could not view messages even with a ‘gun to [his] head’.
Twitter said: ‘As Elon Musk said, when it comes to Direct Messages, the standard should be, if someone puts a gun to our heads, we still can’t access your messages. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re working on it.’
Encryption converts messages into scrambled text that cannot be read by anyone except the intended recipient.
