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by Leo-thorne 369 days ago
I tried X's encrypted chat last week just to see what it was like. The interface is clean and it works smoothly, but once I understood how it actually handles encryption, I stopped using it. If they hold the private keys and there’s no forward secrecy, it makes me cautious. It feels more like something that looks secure rather than true end-to-end encryption.
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Is it actually deployed already? I've noticed no change to the website to indicate it, and the "messages" section looks exactly the same.
Yeah, it’s live on the mobile app. You have to be verified and both users need to follow each other. Once I enabled it, there was a little lock icon on the chat, but the UI didn’t really change much beyond that.