Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by jerrysievert on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:50PM (#18941756)

except even those messages can become public, if one party makes them so, so even "secure" messaging should be considered compromised.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by cortesoft on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:16PM (#18942023)

So at that point, you are basically saying "assume all communications over any medium is public", because this would apply to every form of communication.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by eseehausen on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:54PM (#18941801)

That and most users aren't auditing each new version of the apps to make sure they're still doing what they say they're doing to protect data.

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by kvakil on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:36PM (#18942220)

Modern secure messaging systems are typically OTR and have deniability: after the session ends, anybody can forge messages to make it look like they came from you. Sure the messages can become public, but they're no more "proof" than someone saying "X said Y".

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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by CodeMage on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:06PM (#18942509)

Deniability is not the same as privacy and can't be used to replace it.

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