Twitter discloses national security letters
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Twitter discloses national security letters
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#2Although they could have just sent it onto the intended target and gone quietly about their day, I'm really glad that Twitter made this an announcement. Do they have any kind of warrant canary system?
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#3Given the size of their user base, makes you wonder how many of these they are not allowed to talk about...
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#4Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?
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#5This 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 this plus the Cloudflare, Google, etc posts... so hopefully I'm proved wrong in this assessment.
> While the actual NSLs request a large amount of data, Twitter provides a very limited set of data in response to NSL
I'm curious just how much they asked for here. I'm guessing it's the user plus 2 hops of anyone they talked to? Including:
- DMs
- t.co links clicked on
- IP addresses when accessing twitter
- device IDs, browser, OS, etc
- phone numbers
- visits to URLs of 3rd party web pages containing embedded tweets? (not sure if this is tracked via cookie)
That could turn out to be plenty of data but I don't believe a single users data would be referenced by Twitter as "a large amount of data", it's very likely at least one hop or more, but who knows.
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#6Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?
They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.
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#7Is 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.
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#8Wait a minute, Do they still really use typewriters?
No. The DOJ has standardized on Courier for a font, and Courier's a built in font on pretty much all decent word processing programs and printers. The State Department used to use it too, but switched to Times New Roman some years ago.
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#9Is 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.
It's just virtue signaling, something Jack is very big on.
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#10Is 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.
Is this the same Scott Adams that claims to have been shadowbanned, without any proof?
Might his lower Twitter engagement have something to do with people getting sick of hearing from him about Trump?