Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt Twitter DMs

Re:Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt... by natch on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:54PM (#33711373)

I don't see any contradiction since all he said was "potentially." We don't even have the full quote.

The Signal protocol is also a thing, outside of Signal. For instance, WhatsApp uses it. It's highly possible someone listening misunderstood a reference to signal as a reference to the company, not the protocol, and jumped to the wrong conclusions. Again the article author does not bother to track down the exact quote.

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Re:Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt... by pr337h4m on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:07PM (#33711519)

He was referring to Moxie:

He went on to praise Signal, the encrypted chat app that is run as a non-profit. He said he had spoken with its creator, Moxie Marlinspike, who is now “potentially willing to help out” with encrypting Twitter DMs.

“Ironically, Moxie Marlinspike worked at Twitter and actually wanted to do encrypted DMs several years ago, [but] was denied that and then went and created Signal,” Musk said.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23472174/twitter-dms-enc...

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Re:Signal contradicts Musk, says it’s not helping to encrypt... by natch on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:18PM (#33712931)

Thanks for the added context. That makes it pretty clear the title here is indeed flamebait.

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