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But they can't change those keys without isolating every installation until it's updated, right?

• dmdeller 14y ago
  Indeed. Constantly changing keys would cause as many problems for users of the official client as it would for unofficial clients. Twitter could make some way for the official client to fetch new keys from a server without a binary update, but then they'd have to somehow protect that mechanism from third parties... I suppose the next logical step would be to procedurally generate keys based on the date, and have only the algorithm (not the keys themselves) known to the official client. Not in any way insurmountable, but a little more difficult to crack.