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FBI Director's Secret Twitter Account Outed by Loose Lips and Metadata

posted by takyon on Friday March 31 2017, @08:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the Just-Desserts,-or-Just-Dessert? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Last night, at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance leadership dinner, Comey let slip that he has both a secret Twitter and an Instagram account in the course of relating a quick anecdote about one of his daughters.

An intrepid writer at Gizmodo took that the description in anecdote and combined it with public info about Comey's relatives, associates and personal history to uncover a twitter account that looks suspiciously like it belongs to Comey. Was it a years-long prank in the making, or did the head of the FBI fail at OpSec?

Update: Benjamin Wittes had this to say. The FBI also responded to the article:

Hello,

We don't have any comment.

Thank you.

FBI National Press Office

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday March 31 2017, @08:47AM (1 child)

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday March 31 2017, @08:47AM (#486989)

    This is why you should assume that any long-lived accounts may eventually be associated with you.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by zocalo on Friday March 31 2017, @09:16AM

    by zocalo (302) on Friday March 31 2017, @09:16AM (#486996)
    Also why allowing ISPs to sell "anonymised" data of your online activities is a terrible idea. Shame this didn't happen a couple of days ago, huh?
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