A top Twitter staffer said its new encrypted DM feature was tested by a cybersecurity firm, but insiders say the company never signed a formal deal due to layoffs – report says
in a blog post that this new feature could be vulnerable to"man-in-the-middle attacks" which would let"a malicious insider, or Twitter itself as a result of a compulsory legal process" access users' DMs.
According to Platformer, Christopher Stanley – a former SpaceX staffer who now runs Twitter's security engineering and the– said that this new feature had been audited by a cybersecurity firm called Trail of Bits in a now-deleted tweet. "A white paper will be published soon," Stanley reportedly Tweeted."I had [cybersecurity firm] Trail of Bits audit our implementation. Dan Guido and those folks are badass" – referring to its CEO who has alsoBut Twitter hadn't even signed a contract with the firm yet, unnamed company sources told Platformer.
According to the tech newsletter, that's because Twitter keeps laying off the procurement staff who would handle such deals.
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