Posted on 05/31/2025 9:28:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
Circle back to gettr J6
Interesting.
Hmmm...
By not saying much about it, the hope could be that no news is good news. Or, not giving Elon more fodder? Or being quiet to not further feed opposition research?
I’ve heard more than one person say, after this happened, that when there is a big fight between close friends, it is often best to just leave them alone to duke it out themselves. Let them solve it without outside interference.
Or, it could be that Bannon simply wanted to talk about higher priority issues for the night, which would be my guess. That way, the Q&A session could stay more on track?
Why do you think he said very little?
I hope this is over with soon.
Keep us posted if you hear back on that interview.
Hope everything works out for you.
X’s new ‘encrypted’ XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/xs_new_encrypted_xchat_feature/
Excerpt:
Elon Musk’s X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a “whole new architecture,” but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there’s reason to doubt what’s been said.
Dubbed “XChat” (not to be confused with the venerable Linux/Windows IRC app of the same name), Musk informally announced the feature on Sunday, a few days after the company formerly known as Twitter paused encryption on messaging to make “some improvements.”.
Musk’s declaration, however, didn’t reveal much about the nature of the changes, and has been enough to cause some encryption experts to doubt what was stated by the world’s richest man.
“All new XChat is rolling out with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file,” Musk said in a tweet. “Also, audio/video calling.
“This is built on Rust with (Bitcoin style) encryption, whole new architecture,” Musk added. And here’s where the skeptics and cryptocurrency fans in the digital town square pounced: There ain’t no encryption on the Bitcoin blockchain.
As reported by crypto news site Coindesk, experts have been quick to point out that, while there’s plenty of cryptography and digital signing involved in Bitcoin, the blockchain itself isn’t encrypted, and there really isn’t such a thing as “Bitcoin style encryption.”
In other words, it’s worth questioning whether XChat is going to be encrypted in a way that most people think of encrypted chat: End-to-end encryption (E2EE) that renders messages completely unreadable by anyone who might happen to snoop in them, be it an illicit intermediary or the platform that hosts the messages itself. That’s how Signal and Meta-owned WhatsApp work.
As was the case in 2023, when then-Twitter first announced encrypted messages under owner Elon Musk, it doesn’t appear that XChat will offer true E2EE. The help page, which was updated with the launch of the service, still warns “currently, we do not offer protections against man-in-the-middle attacks” and says that Twitter itself, “as a result of a compulsory legal process,” could compromise so-called encrypted DMs on the platform without the sender or receiver being aware.
.....Perhaps the details will become clearer once X releases a whitepaper and open-sources its implementation of Xchat, as it promised to do “later this year.”
Skeptics about the new Xchat’s privacy include Matthew Hodgson, the co-founder and CEO of encrypted messaging platform Element, used by the US military, NATO, the United Nations, and other highly secure organizations.
“XChat looks to be just another centralized platform where users have zero control over their data,” Hodgson said in a statement emailed to The Register. “Elon Musk says it’s ‘encrypted’ but offers no technical transparency, no audits, no open source, just vague references to Bitcoin-style architecture.”
.....”Such actions highlight a pattern of data handling that prioritizes X rather than its users,” Hodgson said. Anything less than “open protocols, transparency and decentralization,” said the Element chief, “is just marketing.”
Capri, Italy
Elon Musk is going full psycho.
He’s lost it, completely.
https://x.com/pinoamericano/status/1930693013409243203
Megalomania on full display, no wonder Trump won’t take his calls anymore.
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Loving all the memes!
Good to hear that you and yours are all OK! Sounds like “someone” was watching over you.
“Threaded the needle” here again last night, with the worst going just north and just south of here.
Ready for this nonsense to END!
Trump says he plans to fire Fed chair Powell and replace him with Kevin Warsh
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/trump-says-he-plans-to-fire-fed-chair-powell/
Congratulations on your new job!
Thanks for checking in.
🙏🏻
This is great to watch. Trump gave them enough rope, didn’t he?
https://www.foxnews.com/health/colorectal-cancer-risk-reduced-common-vitamin-study-suggests
Colorectal cancer risk reduced by this common vitamin, study suggests
Vitamin D found to prevent disease and boost survival in advanced cases
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366061171112
Study sounds alarm on seed oils as colon cancer diagnoses surge among young people
Dr. Marc Siegel breaks down the new study on seed oils, ultra-processed foods and inflammation.
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