Post ASCzS2Ivdw3XwKGWTw by Catsav@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASCnpzdE25Cb9PPrcG by drewharwell@mastodon.social
       2023-01-31T14:22:10Z
       
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       "We’ve confirmed that Irwin has access to user DMs as part of her position. Given the way the company has handled the Twitter Files, multiple former employees told us that DMs are no longer secure, and have discouraged us from using them for any remotely sensitive communication."https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter @caseynewton @zoeschiffer
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCnq1EU52bG7Fr8KW by drewharwell@mastodon.social
       2023-01-31T14:33:51Z
       
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       Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that? https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCzS2Ivdw3XwKGWTw by Catsav@mastodon.social
       2023-01-31T14:28:13Z
       
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       @drewharwell @caseynewton @zoeschiffer People might consider what they are typing into #chatGPT. Are you handing over sensitive intel as you ask the AI to wordsmith it? Are you handing over IP as you optimize the code for that game-changing new feature?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCzYeWETWJSCJdw8m by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2023-01-31T15:29:27Z
       
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       @drewharwell DMs were never secure. The only way DMs could have been secure is if they’d been end-to-end encrypted. They were always insecure but some folks were fine with who had access to them.It’s similar to building a surveillance state under Obama and then freaking out when Trump gets access to it. Perhaps we have to start thinking about not building such things or accepting them to begin with even if it’s our friends who are running them at the time.@caseynewton @zoeschiffer
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCzaGd6GXDygZcpjE by anders@thoresson.social
       2023-01-31T15:57:03Z
       
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       @aral @drewharwell @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I have educated Swedish reporters on digital source protection for many years, and have repeated this over and over again. And yet, even in 2023, I see reporters using Twitter (and other social media services) to find sources, offering source protection but no other contact way than DMs. And this is not about Twitter. This is about understanding tools and choosing the right one.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCzaHPfLy4Z7CLcQa by anders@thoresson.social
       2023-01-31T15:57:53Z
       
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       @aral @drewharwell @caseynewton @zoeschiffer I hate that we are now at the “told you so”-stage.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASCzaHzTCqiEuF6DEe by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2023-01-31T16:18:08Z
       
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       @anders @drewharwell @caseynewton @zoeschiffer A magazine once asked a bunch of us to literally say “I told you so” about surveillance-based tech (or “people farming” as I call it). I told them I’d only do it if I could point out their own hyprocrisy as a company reliant on adtech. The result:https://thenextweb.com/news/forced-9-privacy-experts-say-told-facebook-hopefully-well-listen-next-time(I can’t believe that was five years ago.)