as a general rule, if it's digital and the police want it bad enough they can get it. Most countries will compell you to give up passwords and encryption keys if they can get warrants. I would reccomend everyone disable fingerprint and voice log-in on devices and use a strong password.
That misses the point, though. If you want to communicate with a trusted person, encryption is what stops snooping. If that person will share a screen-shot, you trusted the wrong person.
DMs were a bolted on feature because people were yelling at the devs that DM were critical so they aren’t really part of the protocol they are building currently.
I'm sure that's a part of it once the proper spec is out. The DM system right now is basically a hack because they needed one and the spec wasn't ready.
Still won't matter much either participant is hosted on Bluesky, since Bluesky then holds the keys for that account.
As if elon couldn’t read our DMs on X, its like many Ukranians said during the russian invasion “we’re used to the USSR, so powercuts, living without heat is normal to us”
Guess the gov'ment's gonna know my plans to traumatize people on Youtube with puppet vore. On second thought, the feds might get the trauma first and that'll scare their black Chevy Suburbans and "Flowers by Irene" trucks away.
Jumping on this to advise everyone that cares to learn how encryption works for themselves. Encryption can be a pain but it's still not that hard to actually use once you do a little work to learn. Grab Kleopatra if you're on desktop.
It's like "can you use your electronics for anything at all? Yes? Then they're not secure. How do you make them secure? Throw them in a wood chipper and switch to paper and one-time pads."
Don't put ANYTHING on "Social Media" you'd not want made public. Really the internet itself but there are some avenues where you can make it F*cking difficult for authorities or other hostile entities to decrypt and some things even if there's a backdoor to sue it they have to admit there is one>
>and that costs more than ... hopefully what its worth to lose the illusion of privacy...
But Social Media is see through with hundreds of ways to hack into, the least of which is a subpoena and some claim or DMCA filing. Since most is "Free" they just hand over openly any info to any with>>
>>authority - certainly the Fed Fuzz. Carrot vs stick, when a company gets too big they rely on tons of tax breaks and law exemptions. The Govern-NOT gives it to them if they aren't harmful illegal. Thus it controls because it can take away illegal tax breaks and antitrust exemptions along with>
That should probably be prioritized on the backlog at this point. Yeah, up to you how much you trust it if/when they offer it but still seems like a no-brainer feature to have.
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Probably 10 as of 2025.
I’ll make sure to give them plenty of reading displeasure (assuming it isn’t all automated).
thank you though
Still won't matter much either participant is hosted on Bluesky, since Bluesky then holds the keys for that account.
“This first version of DMs has limited features (no images or encryption yet), but we'll be adding more safety enhancements in future updates.”
https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages
https://bsky.app/profile/alexandxor.bsky.social/post/3laffhefd5h2z
I hope, anyway.
Tldr encrypt message, send it over insecure line, receiver decrypts it. Store your de/encrypt keys on a thumb drive or notepad
But Social Media is see through with hundreds of ways to hack into, the least of which is a subpoena and some claim or DMCA filing. Since most is "Free" they just hand over openly any info to any with>>
BUT they can't scream to a judge for an illegal tax break back...