"On Tuesday, Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter,is fully encrypted, free from ads and operates independently of Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web Services. X Messaging Designed For Privacy In a post on X, Musk wrote that messages on the platform are "fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange 'AWS dependencies' such that I can't read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head." He added that users can also send files and make audio or video calls through the service."
"The tech mogul's comments follow an Amazon AWS outage that temporarily disrupted websites and apps worldwide on Monday. This included websites and apps like Reddit, Robinhood, Snapchat and government platforms in the U.K., such as Gov.uk and HM Revenue & Customs. The outage was traced to a DNS resolution failure in AWS's DynamoDB service at its Northern Virginia data center, affecting EC2, Lambda and RDS services."
Elon Musk announced that X is fully encrypted, free from advertising hooks, and operates independently of Amazon Web Services. Messages on X are described as fully encrypted with no AWS dependencies, preventing Musk from reading messages under coercion. The platform supports file sharing and audio/video calls. The announcement followed an AWS outage that temporarily disrupted sites and apps worldwide, including Reddit, Robinhood, Snapchat and UK government platforms. The outage stemmed from a DNS resolution failure in AWS's DynamoDB at a Northern Virginia data center, affecting EC2, Lambda and RDS services. Senator Elizabeth Warren cited the outage in calls for stricter Big Tech oversight. Musk has previously advocated end-to-end encryption and criticized WhatsApp over privacy.
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