I resent the fact that the United States' and other governments regularly slurp up everything they can about presumed-innocent people. We cannot do much to stop them when they are hiding their actions from our representatives and from the courts, but I will not make things easy for them if I can avoid it. I suspect that if I was not already using Tor for most of my Web browsing and Signal for phone calls and texting, the warning from Twitter would have served as a strong push in the direction of doing so.
@2 I hope that this is true, but if Twitter is not being coerced to remain silent by the government of the United States of America then it should say so unequivocally. Leaving people in the dark with only a vague warning is a gruesome thing for Twitter's PR to do.
All of this strengthens my resolve to use strong & effective encryption / anonymization technologies and teach others to do the same.
Just a reminder: any data you give to a company is theirs to do whatever they want with, including giving it to the government or selling it to anyone, despite any bogus terms of service you agreed to (or likely agreed to without reading).
Your data is the very product they profit on. Twitter or Facebook do not care about you or your data's safety.
While it would be fun to just point out the hilarity in a handful of deeply paranoid people having and using Twitter accounts to begin with, I think it will be even more entertaining to push this even further down the rabbit hole...
I mean, if you were a state intelligence service looking to recruit foreign assets, of course the first people you'd try to develop would be ones that already have a long and consistent history of activism against their own governments, right?
I resent the fact that the United States' and other governments regularly slurp up everything they can about presumed-innocent people. We cannot do much to stop them when they are hiding their actions from our representatives and from the courts, but I will not make things easy for them if I can avoid it. I suspect that if I was not already using Tor for most of my Web browsing and Signal for phone calls and texting, the warning from Twitter would have served as a strong push in the direction of doing so.
All of this strengthens my resolve to use strong & effective encryption / anonymization technologies and teach others to do the same.
Your data is the very product they profit on. Twitter or Facebook do not care about you or your data's safety.
I mean, if you were a state intelligence service looking to recruit foreign assets, of course the first people you'd try to develop would be ones that already have a long and consistent history of activism against their own governments, right?
Think about it, sheeple!