Thing promised thing due? Private messages on Twitter should be encrypted very soon, its boss Elon Musk announced on the social network.
Encryption, a promise of Elon Musk
The billionaire, who officially bought the social network last October for $44 billion, had already addressed the issue in April 2022 when acquisition negotiations were underway.
The post had been liked by more than 1.4 million users.
Securing exchanges
End-to-end encryption protects digital exchanges. Applied to all types of messages (written, audio, video, etc.), this technology guarantees that only the people who send and receive the exchanges can access their content. This is made possible by a secret encryption key that encrypts the content for everyone else.
Elon Musk had been silent on the issue since he took over as Twitter chief. During a meeting held on November 22, 2022 at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, the boss reiterated his wish. He asked the teams to work on end-to-end encryption for private messages, but also for video calls and voice calls, according to a recording of the meeting seen by The Verge.
He then said he spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, founder of the Signal instant messaging app, renowned for its encryption, and a former Twitter employee. The latter was “potentially ready to lend a hand” to implement encryption within the company, Elon Musk said during this meeting.
The social network has already experienced several setbacks on the subject. In 2018, an API bug (for Application programming interface EITHER Interface apps programming) he had accidentally sent transactions to other accounts, for whom they were not intended.
Source: BFM TV
