X has revealed Chat, an encrypted improve to the platform’s direct messaging service. It additionally consists of help for video and voice calls, disappearing messages, and file sharing.
The corporate announced Chat on Friday, and it’s out there now on iOS and the net, with an Android model coming “quickly.” It replaces X’s present messaging system, although your outdated messages must be carried throughout.
X says that Chat helps end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for each messages and information, although a support page notes that this doesn’t cowl message metadata — equivalent to who acquired it, or when it was despatched. There’s additionally no safety towards man-in-the-middle assaults, the corporate admitting that if “a malicious insider or X itself” compromised an encrypted dialog, there can be no approach for customers to know, although methods to confirm message authenticity and system identification are coming.
Different privateness options embody disappearing messages, which may be set to robotically delete after a set time frame, and the choices to both obtain a notification when a chat is screenshotted or block screenshots fully. Messages may be each edited and deleted, and voice and video calls are supported, with voice notes on the way in which sooner or later.