Post #1229235
2026-04-14 20:46 UTC
@evan @benpate well, that warning would be more informative - but less readable - if it said "Direct messages on Mastodon, just like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and all your SMS messages, are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any highly-sensitive information over social media."
The gap here is people think the others /are/ private because they don't take the ethical stance of pointing this out.
Personally, I'd remove the warning.
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@jaz@toot.wales 2026-04-14 20:46
@evan @benpate 50% of people in this survey think SMS is secure. https://connect.lime-technologies.com/en/blog/messaging-data-privacy-survey/
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-04-14 21:05
@jaz @benpate That'd be the easier way to do it, for sure. But I think it's good to give people the privacy they need. Can I ask another question? Would you be more inclined to support E2EE on a server where you control who uses it, like mastodon.iftas.org?