With the FBI poking around Twitter, it's a good time to remind people—don't have sensitive conversations in Twitter DMs. Move that stuff to Signal. You don't know who'll be in charge of Twitter five, ten, or twenty years from now. Remember the example of LiveJournal.https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1283824572119359491 …
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I've come to believe much of the debate on end-to-end encryption misses the point. The problem isn't people listening in as you talk, but the permanent and ineradicable trail those conversations leave. Unencrypted DM's would be fine for 99% of people if we *knew* they'd disappear
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The whole reason for having to use an elaborate apparatus of decoder rings is that the only way to ensure something is deleted (or even deletable) is to have the whole Rube Goldberg apparatus of modern encryption wheeled out onto our devices by paranoid utopian nerds
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All sides of the E2E wars are equally annoying, so ideally we will find a solution to this problem that makes everyone unhappy
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