Many criticized and praised by others, it is clear that the acquisition of Elon Musk’s Twitter will not go unnoticed. And the point is that in addition to its eccentric news, Musk is taking advantage of the growing popularity of its news to explore the general public’s social network with some of the possible features that could be added to the platform.
In addition to the ongoing tweet editing feature and the addition of other maneuvers to deal with some users’ allegations, such as the proposal to release Twitter algorithms to the open source model, one of the last billionaire reports suggests that an end-to-end encryption system should be implemented (also known as E2EE) to protect the privacy of instant messaging within the platform.
And so, at this time, the sender and recipient can see any direct message sent between Twitter users, plus any twitter administrator with the required level of access to the system.
In this way, the new encryption system would do the reports remain exclusively linked to the two stakeholders in this conversation, the social network itself being completely out of access to any private content. Encrypted text can only be decrypted if the sender and recipient have the correct encryption keys to decrypt the original message. This encryption is intended maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.
While online privacy advocates welcome E2EE and the protection it provides, we will, of course, continue to meet with some opponents. And this is because other stakeholders, such as governments or other organizations, feel that E2EE is going too far and pointing out that it can help hide criminal activities and protect those involved.
