Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.
  • graphito@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    All this time he’s been sitting on his hands waiting for perfect moment when richest man on earth needed him the most

  • 利斯科@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Does security matter all that much for a service like Twitter? It’s just a site where users publicly post messages, so it’s but like there’s this wealth of private or sensitive information on there. Billing info probably is their most sensitive data and if I remember right they didn’t protect that very well anyway

      • 利斯科@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 years ago

        I think in many or most of such cases, learning who these people really are would have a net positive effect on global security.

        • Whom@beehaw.org
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          2 years ago

          It could impact a ton of activists doing work they may be jailed or killed for where they’re from and queer people in unsafe environments. Victims of stalking, too.

          I’m not really sure whose location and real identity could be revealed that would make anything better apart from being able to egg some racist shitposter’s house lol

          • 利斯科@sopuli.xyz
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            2 years ago

            A lot of those so-called activists are not even real people but posting fake propaganda for this or that government.

            • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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              2 years ago

              I know real activists with real OpSec problems on Twitter. I’m actually consulting them on the risks of posting to such a site. Security issues with twitter are security issues for people.

              Why don’t you post your address here on Lemmy? Why do you post from an alias and not your real name?

    • heady@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Password reuse means a twitter compromise would lead to accounts being stolen all over the Web. Hijacked Twitter accounts could be used directly for all manner of impersonation scams and spamming. Security matters on every site because every site has some potential to leverage attacks on others.

      • 利斯科@sopuli.xyz
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        2 years ago

        Password reuse means a twitter compromise would lead to accounts being stolen all over the Web.

        I didn’t think about this, so you made an excellent point. I haven’t reused a password in years now, so I forgot that’s a thing.