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Also consider: Elon Musk (and maybe the House of Saud?) now has access to the direct messages of every politician on the planet.
(And these aren’t necessarily the most technically-savvy or infosec-aware people we’re talking about here…)
@aral What a terrifying thought.
@aral Tucrees que los politicos se mandan muchos mensajes directos en twitter y si se los mandan son importantes? Serian muy tontos no'
@xerz jejejej, tienes toda la razón, lo han hecho supongo y aun caerán en lo mismo, es cierto, si si, no aprenden no.
Y mas los politicos, hasta las webs gubernamentales estan muchas en pañales en cuanto a seguridad. Ni se enteran.
la @la9deanon se metia donde queria casi, entre que saben hacerlo y que en muchos sitios la puerta estaba casi abierta pues ya ves.
@aral
@xerz Total agree whit >> así que hay que dar por hecho que sí (y me apuesto lo que sea a que se sigue haciendo)""""
Lo volverán a hacer , fijo.
@unosorojo le ves mas seguridad a twitter que a wasap?
@aral
@coloco @unosorojo@social.trom.tf @aral No, lo digo porque es en Whatsapp donde los políticos coordinan cosas, o en su defecto en Telegram. En cuanto a seguridad los mensajes de WP están "cifrados de extremo a extremo", pero como todo, nada es 100% seguro
@aral sigh, this just keeps getting better
@aral I think we're in 'assume the worst' territory.
@aral and to very exact locations every single tweet and DM was sent from, with very exact timestamps.
@aral Placing bets now on Musk using blackmail to fund twitter
@aral Kompromat/bribery was my first thought upon reading news of the upcoming takeover. Regular folks should be concerned as well.
@aral That should make him the first trillionaire.
@aral On Twitter, the owners can read your DMs!
@aral terrifying that this is a very likely scenario at this point… it seems there is absolutely no moral compass involved anymore when it comes to billionaires and generating more money (or more billionaire-favorable economic environments). although i do doubt that high-ranking politicians have any meaningful / exploitable communications in their twitter dms
@jucka You have a very high opinion of high-ranking politicians ;P
(Just look at Liz Truss and her phone, for the latest example of how clueless they are when it comes to infosec/tech.)
@aral I agree, there were also instances with Angela Merkel where phones weren’t hardened properly (or securely used) and probably loads more no one even heard of. Still, as far as I know, politicians like the PM of Britain or BK of Germany normally only use heavily moderated social media accounts and I can’t imagine there is actual political discourse going on in their dms. Another story for accounts they used before getting into power…
@aral Just where you want it, in the hands of one of the more insecure people in recent history.
@aral sure but I can't imagine that any of them actually use twitter DMs for anything
@pacanukeha Oh, you’d be surprised. (Sadly, my own experience has been that they’re no more aware of the security issues than a random person on the street.)
@aral ugh - I’m glad I left. (Still struggling to make this platform work though)
@aral they are their imperialist friends so what is there to worry?
@aral Twitter DMs are not a secure messenger.
@rother_stuebs Indeed. Now get politicians to understand that :)
@aral That is a worrying thought — I did not consider that.
@aral so we can assume everyone that’s been on the bluebird are compromised one way or the other right?
@aral I have serious doubts whether they're using DMs for anything worth spying on.
@aral desde que tenemos acceso a la red cada persona sabe que toda su información es observada, y no solo por una persona, sino por muchísimas. Y bueno pues, las personas son solo eso, personas, ni buenas ni malas. 
@aral
And Ocasio-Cortez seemed to think he had interfered with her Twitter account - which would be just the sort of puerile thing one expects of him
@Flowers Yep. In this particular instance, it would appear that it might have been a technical glitch as some other verified folks reported seeing the same thing but yes, exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from him.
And no one external to Twitter has a way of knowing exactly what they’re doing as there’s zero transparency. The only thing we know is that it’s Elon’s toy now and he has access to whatever he wants on it.
@aral Guliani, for one, would send all passwords of all his clients
@aral Without wanted to support Elon, but if any politician was exchange important information through any commercial social media, then I hope Elon would expose that politician.
My argument here is that who is the ownership is just one dimension of the equation, the protocol (like the constitution of the platform) is one other dimension. Personally, I am here not for the "ownership", I am here for the future-proofed protocol. Elon is just one another extremely rich guy with expensive toys.
@pyannakas @aral except, Felon is playing with hot stuff and is dangerous
@aral Nice timing. I was just about to spin up site.js. I have questions.
@shoq Ah, what for? Please feel free to ask away but also keep an eye on https://CodeBerg.org/kitten/app as that’s where all the new work is. Site.js is functional and it runs all our own sites but it’s an evolutionary dead-end.
(I am using a lot of the constituent parts in Kitten.)
@aral thats a scary thought...
@aral Good thought, hadn't even considered that.
I think we're in for even darker times than we realize.