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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.

Penalties for... what? Did you pay for the product? You are using a free service. You get what you pay for...

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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post #19
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. But where does that leave us with “The Cloud”?

"The Cloud" is like storing your data with skywriting, you can see it from many locations, but so can your neighbors

A very poor analogy when encryption exists

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

#24

Sometimes, I'm sad I quit using Twitter. There are some neat people sharing content there. But the more time goes by, the less sad I get. Their tech stack is and always has been a bit of a garbage fire.

Name one startup that grew quickly and organically into a massive company which doesn't have a "garbage fire" tech stack.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

#25
post #8
post #6

Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.

A prudent consumer also doesn't send 'live-destroying' messages on a public, hosted messaging platform, regardless of a private setting... Note that this isn't even about DMs.

If companies can't be trusted to act carefully and responsibly with users' data, then I think that's a problem with the companies.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

#26
post #9

Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…

The result of this is the attitude that we shouldn’t even bother trying to make services and products more secure. Why send tweets over HTTPS? It’s all public anyway. Why should WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption given Facebook’s hostility to user privacy?

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

#27
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a couple exceptions perhaps, like Signal or iMessage? But I agree; unless the service is part of a very small whitelist, assume it's public.

except even those messages can become public, if one party makes them so, so even "secure" messaging should be considered compromised.

That and most users aren't auditing each new version of the apps to make sure they're still doing what they say they're doing to protect data.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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post #10
post #9

Just my own opinion, but at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public. If it's not something you would want the world knowing you said, don't put it out there. Security breaches happen. Bugs happen. Sometimes law enforcement just comes by and says, "Give me everything that user X has ever done." In short, sh!t happens. "Everything I do on…

Totally agree. But where does that leave us with “The Cloud”?

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspo...

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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post #21
post #6

Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claiming private product when it isn't so.

Penalties for... what? Did you pay for the product? You are using a free service. You get what you pay for...

Damages. Just because I didn't pay for a product doesn't mean that disqualifies me from restitution when they mishandle my data.
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