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Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by js2 »

jrootabega wrote: post #143
latchkey wrote: post #92

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https://twitter.com/settings/account/login_verification Authentication app Use a mobile authentication app to get a verification code to enter every time you log in to Twitter. https://help.twitter.com/managing-your-account/two-factor-au... Update: they added Authenticator 2FA in 2017 and a security key in 2021.

Perhaps this has changed in the last few months, but you need a phone number configured to use TOTP 2FA even if you don't use SMS 2FA. It's bullshit.

I just setup TOTP 2FA w/o a phone number.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by doldols »

bell-cot wrote: post #65
rosndo wrote: post #30

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Ah...might you have any credible evidence of OP previously behaving in that way, either on Twitter or other social media platforms? Or evidence that Twitter is extremely difficult to hack, to make theories that it was hacked non-credible?

Why would OP need to lie about this if he had a well documented history of posting this kind of comments? Now that would be weird.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by mdoms »

jacquesm wrote: post #174
mdoms wrote: post #164

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This is so confusing that at this point it feels like you're intentionally withholding information. Answer the simple question, has your password changed? Because if not then we can concretely rule out social engineering attacks - if they didn't know your password to begin with then they couldn't change it back, and if they did there would be no need for a social engineering attack.

> Answer the simple question, has your password changed? Already answered upthread, someone figured out a way to test this without logging out and the answer is no, it has not been changed. So it has to be a technical trick of sorts. But what?

Are you certain that the email from Twitter is even genuine? Your account looks completely normal to me. I don't know what a blocked account should look like but to me it doesn't look like your account is banned or anything. And the tweet in question (which your bafflingly refuse to delete) isn't present.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

mort96 wrote: post #160
jacquesm wrote: post #14

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There is no way that my account password was compromised without a much more elaborate hack of Twitter, either that or someone social engineered them to change my password.

I'm not saying this is what happened, but compromising your e-mail is also a possibility. Also, I'm not sure how you can say "there is _no way_" your account password was compromised. Can you know for certain that you haven't ever executed code which couldn't potentially be malicious or have security issues? Hell, if you use a web browser there's a non-zero chance that some website you visited was compromised to serv…

That is true, my email could be compromised.

But: my browser - which I use to access my email - is locked down to the point that a normal user probably wouldn't find it much fun, between umatrix and adblock plus there isn't a whole lot of javascript that runs before I authorize it.

Agreed that it is possible. But still unlikely.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by djur »

jacquesm wrote: post #176
bryced wrote: post #163

Seems most likely you replied to this tweet and forgot. Your tweet makes sense in this context. "They arent bothering to train current conscripts. Some Russian soldiers say they are given a weapon and sent straight in. Learn on the job." 11:29 AM · May 2, 2022 https://twitter.com/Johnrigsby128/status/1521195277033648129

Ok interesting, but within that context the tweet at least makes some sense but does not call for someone to die explicitly... it just gets weirder...

I had a tweet flagged and my account locked for explaining an aspect of the QAnon conspiracy theory to another user. This was in a critical, skeptical context, but the individual tweet could be read as advocating the position I was describing. I wasn't successful in appealing it and ended up deleting. Twitter's policies tend to err heavily on the side of false positives.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jwilk »

jacquesm wrote: post #180
gorhill wrote: post #155

I tried to find a tweet which would be a best match if the subject tweet had been a reply to another tweet, here is a good candidate: https://twitter.com/Johnrigsby128/status/1521195277033648129

I can't see what it says there (still get the stupid 'phone number required' screen).

https://nitter.it/Johnrigsby128/status/1521195277033648129

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

oh_sigh wrote: post #151
jacquesm wrote: post #14

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There is no way that my account password was compromised without a much more elaborate hack of Twitter, either that or someone social engineered them to change my password.

Or you just accidentally typed your password into the wrong site, perhaps via phishing? Believing you weren't/couldn't be phished is a great way to get phished again...

No, this is not possible. This password was generated by Firefox and apart from the test earlier to see whether or not it was changed I have never used it elsewhere much less copied it. It would have to be a session hijack or something like that.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by mdoms »

jacquesm wrote: post #176
bryced wrote: post #163

Seems most likely you replied to this tweet and forgot. Your tweet makes sense in this context. "They arent bothering to train current conscripts. Some Russian soldiers say they are given a weapon and sent straight in. Learn on the job." 11:29 AM · May 2, 2022 https://twitter.com/Johnrigsby128/status/1521195277033648129

Ok interesting, but within that context the tweet at least makes some sense but does not call for someone to die explicitly... it just gets weirder...

So did you write the tweet or not? Your behaviour in this thread is really bizarre dude, can you just be up front with us?

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

latchkey wrote: post #153
jacquesm wrote: post #120

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I don't have a smartphone specifically because I believe they are insecure by design, at least one company and a whole raft of employees there have access to it and that's before we get into automatic updates of the software on those devices and so on. When I say I'm pretty sure that this machine wasn't compromised that is because I'm utterly paranoid when it comes to stuff like this. Possibly not paranoid enough - g…

Where do you back up your passwords? (don't answer that, just something to think about) These days, you can never be too paranoid. I religiously 2FA all my accounts the moment I create them.

> Where do you back up your passwords?

That's a good one: on a server with an asymmetric encryption system (different decryption key than encryption key) the decryption key is not stored in any automated system, the back up is 'pull' from that one server inbound to this machine.

I guess it is theoretically possible that someone broke into the backup server but it too is locked down pretty good, to the point that if I want access I'll have to get into the car and go there in person. Call me paranoid :)

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

LightG wrote: post #152
jacquesm wrote: post #89

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I care because I have about 11K followers there and apparently someone is able to write stuff that looks like I wrote it and that opens me up to all kinds of damage. So this may not be a 'big deal' to you but it is to me.

I do understand, but this was always the trap ... and you signed up to it. I don't blame you, but I sort of do. These are behemoths where you are the product. Don't be surprised when things go awry with not the slightest care in the world by said behemoth about you.

You are 100% right. Still, I expected better. Obviously I was wrong about that.

Because (1) whatever is in that tweet isn't reason for a ban by itself (2) given that it says what it does and is so far out of character for me (to wish KyivIndependent and bunch of others to die? rather the opposite...) that it makes me wonder what the real goal here is and (3) if this is some kind of trial balloon they picked the entirely wrong guy to do it with, which just 10 minutes of research would have made perfectly clear.

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