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Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#11

Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?

They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

Could you please elaborate?

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#12
post #5

This is great Twitter is being open about these. Do these releases get media coverage? Is anyone talking about the various lawsuits and blog posts about public releases of NSLs by tech companies? I wish the NYTimes and WaPo spent as much time caring about this stuff as they did about being the non-critical mouthpiece for various "anonymous intelligence officials". There is definitely a story that could be made out of…

Twitter need to pull their finger out and get end-to-end encryption sorted on their DM's. I mean they onced acuihired Moxie and Whisper Systems yet they still don't have this in place? Many journalists and others are finding that Twitter is the place where initial contact with people/public/sources is being made first, because it's so easy to find and reach out to people. Yet they have no e-2-e on that. Even Facebook/WhatsApp, Google 'Allo, Telegram and of course, Signal are doing a better job then them.

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#13
post #7

Is this the same Twitter that has allegedly shadowbanned Scott Adams multiple times for his political positions? If Twitter is interested in transparency, how about some transparency on that? Twitter's actions make me distrust any "transparency" talk, even if I disagree with Adams on certain things.

Care to cite a source? And what sort of transparency, exactly, do you want to see out of Twitter to disprove something that cannot be disproven?

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#14
post #7

Is this the same Twitter that has allegedly shadowbanned Scott Adams multiple times for his political positions? If Twitter is interested in transparency, how about some transparency on that? Twitter's actions make me distrust any "transparency" talk, even if I disagree with Adams on certain things.

If that's the case I'm surprised Adams hasn't packed up and taken his business to a competitor like gab.ai

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#15
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage. Could you please elaborate?

Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage. Could you please elaborate?

Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

#19
It's important to remember that these orders serve a real and necessary role in investigating serious criminals; these individuals are not named prior to trial or if the investigation does not lead to a trial. It should not be assumed that they were being unlawfully persecuted - rather that there was a serious reason for them to be under investigation.

Re: Twitter discloses national security letters

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post #19

It's important to remember that these orders serve a real and necessary role in investigating serious criminals; these individuals are not named prior to trial or if the investigation does not lead to a trial. It should not be assumed that they were being unlawfully persecuted - rather that there was a serious reason for them to be under investigation.

> these individuals are not named, but it should not be assumed that they were being unlawfully persecuted - rather that there was a serious reason for them to be under investigation.

If only there were some way of determining whether they were being unlawfully persecuted or validly investigated.

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