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This will give you a list of numbers, take the number that is next to your twitter username. Type account list to list all the accounts you have set up in Bitlbee.Type account add twitter $username where $username is the username of your twitter account.This is used for persistance between connections to Bitlbee
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Install Bitlbee - should be in your package manager on Linux, for other platforms (like Cygwin or OS X), you will need to compile from source.Pidgin, Adium, Weechat with the otr.py script, and irssi-otr all have OTR support for IRC, and have decent communities that can help if you run into any snags You will need an IRC client which has OTR support to connect to the Bitlbee gateway to send encrypted DMs. Note: Bitlbee isn't a stand-alone client like the Adium and Pidgin, but an IRCIM gateway. So for the time being, your group chats will still be sent in plaintext. Unless the two parties are taking clear steps to anonymize these (like using throwaway Twitter accounts, tied to a throwaway email address, connected to only using Tor), an adversary can still figure out that Akiko is talking to Boris.Īlso, I would like to note that the below clients can only currently handle a two-way conversation as mpOTR isn't implemented in these applications yet. What IP addresses were accessing each Twitter account.The following is still possible to view by Twitter: Important Threat Model Noteīefore we get to the instructions, I want to make it absolutely clear that doing this protects the content that is being sent in each DM. I've tested out sending messages between two twitter accounts I control in each of these clients following these steps. Sadly due to problems with the Twitter libraries in each of these respective clients, this is near impossible as of, but can be fixed in future versions.īelow are guides for setting up your Twitter account in Bitlbee, which will allow you to connect to it with a client of your choosing. In a previous version of these instructions I wrote on how to set up Adium and Pidgin as standalone clients for Twitter+OTR. Since these are stored in plaintext at rest, an adversary can see the content of the message you are sending, which the two parties might not wish to happen.įortunately as a few applications with basic Twitter support which also have excellent support for OTR, all hope isn't lost and it is possible to have the dream of end-to-end encrypted DMs, without the headache that copying and pasting PGP messages might bring. Sadly, DM's are still sent in plaintext between users and Twitter has no plans currently on encrypting these messages, at least as of August 2015. With the recent removal of the 140-character limit in Direct Messages by Twitter, DM's have now become a much more useful platform for communicating between individuals and groups. Twitter DM + OTR: A quick and dirty tutorial
