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Analysis of X's new XChat shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a-bi…

A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…

Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82;
American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/09/sly-stone-pioneering-funk-and-sou…

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/michiganians-of-year/2025/06/05/rolf-peterson-michiganian-detroit-news/83275932007/ 🐺

Michigan Tech biologist makes his mark on wildlife on Isle Royale
Rolf Peterson, a retired Michigan Tech professor, became one of the leading experts on wolves during 55 years of studying wildlife on Isle Royale.

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…

Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads will soon test its own private messaging system that’s distinct from Instagram’s, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina.

#sundaymorning still life
#guitar #recording

"Dank dem Internet können sich Flat-Earther Nachrichten zusenden, ohne zu realisieren, dass ihre Nachricht dreimal um die Erde musste, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen." https://www.beobachter.ch/magazin/gesellschaft/die-wahrheit-811935

@… wrote on the X DM system, but then rabbitholed down on one of its components: JuiceBox, which is a threshold oprf based key storage solution. quite similar to sphinx. the juicebox section touches on a bunch of things related to t-oprfs, sphinx, klutshnik and even opaque. good stuff. the x-r(el)ated rest? *shrug*

A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Update 6/10: Based on a short conversation with an engineering lead at X, some of the devices used at X are claimed to be using HSMs. See below. Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X…

Na ein Glück war Misogynie für Wissenschaftlerinnen noch nie ein Thema. :-}
https://repository.aip.org/cartoon-irene-joliot-curie-paris-newspaper

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…