{"id":259287,"date":"2018-05-08T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=259287"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:59:29","slug":"twitter-testing-encrypted-messaging-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/259287-twitter-testing-encrypted-messaging-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter testing encrypted messaging feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has a &#8220;secret conversation&#8221; option hidden in the code of its Android app, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/07\/encrypted-dms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>No details about the launch date and functionality of the feature have been announced, but screenshots of the code in action suggest Twitter is prototyping it.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the screenshots, Twitter Secret Conversations will work similarly to Telegram&#8217;s, where you must first open a secret conversation with another user before it will be encrypted.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery comes a year and a half after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested on Twitter that the feature be added, and received a response from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter declined to comment about testing Secret Conversations on the platform.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">reasonable and something we&#39;ll think about<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jack (@jack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/809177772782297088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/258661-twitter-taps-google-cloud-service-for-cold-storage.html\">Twitter taps Google Cloud service for cold storage<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has a &#8220;secret conversation&#8221; option hidden in the code of its Android app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7407,405],"class_list":["post-259287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259295,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259287\/revisions\/259295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}