End-to-end encryption for Twitter direct messages
So, you want to avoid mass surveillance and don't trust big tech companies either? But you're tied to your existing network of contacts like everyone else? Well now you can send encrypted messages to your contacts over the Twitter direct messaging channel. It's a serverless SPA called Seecret, a Twitter client hosted at https://www.seecret.io Seecret is open source and freely distributable. You can host it anywhere even from your own localhost server. The app is just plain html and javascript, with no server-side processing at all, no tracking, no logging. Steps: 1-Grant Seecret.io…
End-to-end encryption for Twitter direct messages launched on November 10, 2016 with 29 votes, #1,461 of 3,636 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Seecret is a serverless web application that enables end-to-end encrypted direct messaging over Twitter. Users grant the app permission to access their Twitter account, then exchange encrypted messages with contacts through Twitter's DM channel. The application is open source, runs entirely in the browser using HTML and JavaScript with no server-side processing, tracking, or logging, and can be self-hosted or accessed online.
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So, you want to avoid mass surveillance and don't trust big tech companies either? But you're tied to your existing network of contacts like everyone else? Well now you can send encrypted messages to your contacts over the Twitter direct messaging channel. It's a serverless SPA called Seecret, a Twitter client hosted…
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