EXPLAINED | Can Twitter DMs Be Hacked And Do We Need Encryption For Them
New Delhi: Social media platforms are vulnerable to hacking and cyber-attacks and Twitter is no exception, and perhaps that's why tech billionaire Elon Musk, who recently bought the micro-blogging platform, has suggested that Twitter DMs should be end-to-end-encrypted so that the conversations can't be snooped upon. Whether Twitter DMs should be encrypted, has been a matter of debate with the biggest chaos taking place when as many as 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Elon Musk himself and US President Barrack Obama and Jeff Bezos, were hacked in July 2020. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Twitter introducing end-to-end encryption for DMs may have averted the attack on high-profile Twitter accounts back in 2020. Twitter wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not this week’s attackers read or exfiltrated DMs if it had end-to-end encrypted them like we have been asking Twitter to do for years," Electronic Frontier Foundation had earlier said.
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