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Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors
Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the United States, Twitter has permanently suspended its account and falsely claimed that the site may infect users with malware.
[...] A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the company had permanently suspended the DDoSecrets account for violating the social media site's rules barring hacked materials. The spokesperson said the material (1) contained unredacted information that could put people at risk of real-world harm and (2) ran afoul of a policy that forbids the distribution of material that is obtained through technical breaches and hacks, as publishers of DDoSecrets claimed had been done.
DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best criticized the suspension and noted that the Twitter account for WikiLeaks remains active despite its publishing vast troves of private information resulting from the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee and members of the Hillary Clinton campaign. WikiLeaks has also tweeted links to its Vault 7 series, which published details about closely guarded CIA hacking programs.
[...] Twitter users who clicked on tweeted links to the DDoSecrets.com site received a message from Twitter warning, with no evidence, that the site may install malware, steal passwords or other sensitive data, or collect personal data for purposes of sending spam.
This security check from Web security firm Sucuri found no malware on the site, although the firm did note that it was blocked by fellow security firm McAfee.
Previously: "BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @08:45AM (1 child)
No it wasn't! It was just fine tuned to sound like what you wanted to hear. It is confusing now because it fake-news caters to those who you consider the "others".
It was easy to tell how bad journalism is about science even then, because you knew the topic. Every other topic has even less mathematical rigor so it is just basically impossible to call it bad without actually learning about it in detail. And for a lot of things, it is not easy - they don't teach that in school - and that is where the dance of politics is done.
I am writing this from India - have absolutely no interest in either side winning. But it was Hillary's loss that has triggered this attack on social media. Democratic party's corruption has basically left me dumbfounded and frankly, it is scary to me because the USA is going down and I don't like China. Remember how every poll in MSM was talking about Hillary's win? Therein lies the problem. The polls didn't work because they were interacting with that group of people who listen to MSM. There is a well-established way to influence people via MSM, and democrats were left scratching their heads when they realized that an outsider has used social media to bypass the old establishment. And let us not forget it was Obama's media team who invented this new mechanism! Does nobody remember how everyone was clapping to that team? I mean, even The Economist covered it.
As it turns out, the old way of doing things was to have money+people do your work. But on social media, you just need money because there is no middle man.
You should be really wary of people who are telling you this is conspiracy theory. I was very much involved in this kind of activism from 2014-2017 and the people who dismiss opposition by calling them idiots and retards and all kinds of names, are the kind of idiots who are so sure about their superiority they are basically poison. Idiots as in useful idiots.
The sad part is a party that aligns itself with racists and does gerrymandering is evil. Any normal person knows that. There is no veil there - Republicans are open about what they are doing and why. Trump is the epitome of that openness. But the opposition party has absolutely nothing to say about what Trump is doing but has spent the last 3 years complaining about "Trump is evil" and "haha what an idiot" instead of trying to listen to moderates.
I am of the opinion that the cat is out of the bag but clearly Democrats think otherwise. TBH if Trump loses Democrats will go back to the old ways and that won't be good.
If Trump wins...
Pick your poison. Your country is going downhill now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:38PM
I don't know what the MSM narrative is like in India (where Modi seems to be an analogue of Trump), but from within the Empire, I don't see the Republicans having any kind of national profile at the moment that isn't about holding back the Democrat onslaught of Russia, Ukraine, Mueller, impeachment, partisan operatives in the
StasiFBI etc. I think the Republican Party as an ideological force fell apart with the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Of course the Democrats aren't bringing much either since 2016.In fact, one of the things I like about "Republican" Trump being in power is that he hasn't inserted the fingers of religion into the State as the Bushes and Reagan have done. Trump is not some racist bible thumper from flyover country, he is a Wall Street thug who happened to be a Democrat for most his life. In terms of the Republican party being "racist": Are racist bible thumpers going to vote overwhelmingly Republican? Yes, until the Democrats start courting them again, but that is a separate issue.