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Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by setquk »

ams6110 wrote: post #73
setquk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not just the cloud. Any internet connected system, whether in the cloud or on-premises, is vulnerable to intrusion, data breaches, etc. The only system that would be somewhat trustworthy would be a totally air-gapped internal system. This used to be the norm, pre-internet. Few businesses really have this today.

Yes I worked for a totally airgapped defence contractor many years ago. It was very boring :)

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by yingw787 »

bilbo0s wrote: 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…

I don't think this is a healthy assumption to make. Even if you are not embarrassed by the possibility that any message you send could end up on the New York Times, things like industrial espionage (aided in large part by state actors), corporate politics, or even operational security (e.g. identity theft) could grind your life to a halt. The threat space is too large, and it'd be an eventuality that your life will grind to a halt.

You shouldn't rely on a company to look out for you. You have to have laws and official, proven avenues of redress for assured privacy. For example, I trust the USPS Inspector General to protect the privacy of my mail. Somebody might tamper with it and succeed once or twice, but I'm not going to have a paradigm shift and think my mail will always be broken into.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by isostatic »

ReidZB wrote: post #92
alexandercrohde wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just as a heads up on this, slack doesn't even use HTTPS! Your employer can certainly read all private slacks on your work network, even if it's a non-work-slack workspace

Pretty sure it uses HTTPS, but if you're on a corporate network on corporate hardware, there is a real chance that there's a corporate MITM proxy that is capable of reading all of your HTTPS traffic.

Only if you have their root certificate trusted

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by [deleted] »

lukejduncan wrote: post #96
bilbo0s wrote: 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…

Definitely agree. I remember a long time ago Facebook profile pictures used to be private. And then one day without notice they became public. For some reason, I can't find any news articles about when this happened. Maybe I'm crazy or maybe the Internet is gaslighting me. Either way, I had friends who grew up in very conservative muslim families who no longer wore the Hijab but hadn't "come out" to their parents yet…

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Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by craftyguy »

setquk wrote: post #10
bilbo0s wrote: 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”?

'The cloud' is really just a bunch of computers owned and operated by other people.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by vollmond »

marcosdumay wrote: post #98
odorousrex wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I have been teaching my kids and their cousins: 1) Everything you do on the internet is public 2) Everything you post on the internet is forever 3) Everything above can be traced back to you I also showed them how easy it is to save private and public snaps without sending a screenshot notification (including video!) and how easy it is to fake. It's hard to know if it's sinking in or not, but I hope so.…

All those lines would be better with ", except when you want it to" appended at the end.

The entire point of the post is that "what you want" doesn't apply to this.

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by isostatic »

beachie wrote: post #36

I had the pleasure of interviewing the anonymous developer of the fastest organically growing decentralized p2p app notabug.io I feel its relevant to this conversation. Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms? :S https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future... https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future...

"In the year 2015, 4 years before the global explosion of privacy-awareness dialogues"

Really, what's happened in the last 3 weeks?

"starting in the wake of facebook’s Cambridge analytical scandal"

That was November 2017

Re: Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

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Post by dgzl »

bilbo0s wrote: 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…

> it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public

Interestingly enough, this is how I used to justify piracy when I was young. Since digital data almost seems liquid, if an artist doesn't want their content spread, better not make it digital in the first place.

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