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Also consider: Elon Musk (and maybe the House of Saud?) now has access to the direct messages of every politician on the planet.

(And these aren’t necessarily the most technically-savvy or infosec-aware people we’re talking about here…)

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#twitter #elonMusk #privacy #nationalSecurity

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Toni :mastodon:
Toni :mastodon:
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Tucrees que los politicos se mandan muchos mensajes directos en twitter y si se los mandan son importantes? Serian muy tontos no'
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César Flores Huallpa
César Flores Huallpa
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No, lo digo porque es en Whatsapp donde los políticos coordinan cosas, o en su defecto en Telegram. En cuanto a seguridad los mensajes de WP están "cifrados de extremo a extremo", pero como todo, nada es 100% seguro
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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and to very exact locations every single tweet and DM was sent from, with very exact timestamps.
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Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦
Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦
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Kompromat/bribery was my first thought upon reading news of the upcoming takeover. Regular folks should be concerned as well.
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jucka
jucka
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terrifying that this is a very likely scenario at this point… it seems there is absolutely no moral compass involved anymore when it comes to billionaires and generating more money (or more billionaire-favorable economic environments). although i do doubt that high-ranking politicians have any meaningful / exploitable communications in their twitter dms
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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You have a very high opinion of high-ranking politicians ;P

(Just look at Liz Truss and her phone, for the latest example of how clueless they are when it comes to infosec/tech.)

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jucka
jucka
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I agree, there were also instances with Angela Merkel where phones weren’t hardened properly (or securely used) and probably loads more no one even heard of. Still, as far as I know, politicians like the PM of Britain or BK of Germany normally only use heavily moderated social media accounts and I can’t imagine there is actual political discourse going on in their dms. Another story for accounts they used before getting into power…
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Brendan O'Hare 🐮
Brendan O'Hare 🐮
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Just where you want it, in the hands of one of the more insecure people in recent history.
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bit_tyrant_resistor
bit_tyrant_resistor
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and location data. It is called kompromat. J. Edgar Hoover would have creamed his pants if he had this much.
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pacanukeha❎
pacanukeha❎
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sure but I can't imagine that any of them actually use twitter DMs for anything
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Oh, you’d be surprised. (Sadly, my own experience has been that they’re no more aware of the security issues than a random person on the street.)
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PaulU
PaulU
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ugh - I’m glad I left. (Still struggling to make this platform work though)
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Jochen Adler
Jochen Adler
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What else do you suggest, may I ask?
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billy joe bowers - Harris2024
billy joe bowers - Harris2024
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Crazy. Never dealt with that.
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Musical Dog
Musical Dog
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they are their imperialist friends so what is there to worry?
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aduncus :solus:
aduncus :solus:
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so we can assume everyone that’s been on the bluebird are compromised one way or the other right?
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katzenberger
katzenberger
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I have serious doubts whether they're using DMs for anything worth spying on.
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Gerardo
Gerardo
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desde que tenemos acceso a la red cada persona sabe que toda su información es observada, y no solo por una persona, sino por muchísimas. Y bueno pues, las personas son solo eso, personas, ni buenas ni malas. 🤷🏻
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Hippocampe
Hippocampe
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And Ocasio-Cortez seemed to think he had interfered with her Twitter account - which would be just the sort of puerile thing one expects of him
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Yep. In this particular instance, it would appear that it might have been a technical glitch as some other verified folks reported seeing the same thing but yes, exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from him.

And no one external to Twitter has a way of knowing exactly what they’re doing as there’s zero transparency. The only thing we know is that it’s Elon’s toy now and he has access to whatever he wants on it.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Yep.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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More folks than you’d think, sadly.
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Daniel Schildt
Daniel Schildt
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Everything from street address to purchase details. Customer support systems are literally integrated into Twitter APIs for that very purpose.
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Gilly
Gilly
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Guliani, for one, would send all passwords of all his clients
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Panayotis Yannakas
Panayotis Yannakas
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Without wanted to support Elon, but if any politician was exchange important information through any commercial social media, then I hope Elon would expose that politician.

My argument here is that who is the ownership is just one dimension of the equation, the protocol (like the constitution of the platform) is one other dimension. Personally, I am here not for the "ownership", I am here for the future-proofed protocol. Elon is just one another extremely rich guy with expensive toys.

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Shoq
Shoq
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Nice timing. I was just about to spin up site.js. I have questions.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Ah, what for? Please feel free to ask away but also keep an eye on CodeBerg.org/kitten/app as that’s where all the new work is. Site.js is functional and it runs all our own sites but it’s an evolutionary dead-end.

(I am using a lot of the constituent parts in Kitten.)


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