X hits pause on its encrypted DMs feature

Social Network X said in Thursday, working to improve the encrypted DMS feature a bit.

In an article in X, the company’s engineering account gossip Users will be able to access existing encrypted messages, but they will not be able to send new ones. The feature did not record when the exist.

After receiving Elon Musk Twitter O declared Ambitious messages are ambitious to compete with overhaul and privacy-oriented messaging service signal.

The company came out of encrypted DMS feature in 2023 for usersBut it comes with a few drawbacks. For example, the feature is not available for group conversations and supports encryption for text and links, not only media. It also does not offer protection against medium attacks, and your encrypted conversations are not transferred to new devices.