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"
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'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed "BlueLeaks" and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals.
The collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest release from Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an alternative to Wikileaks that publishes caches of previously secret data.
In a post on Twitter, DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes "ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources," and that "among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."
Fusion centers are state-owned and operated entities that gather and disseminate law enforcement and public safety information between state, local, tribal and territorial, federal and private sector partners.
BlueLeaks from Distributed Denial of Secrets. [Dataset link has been nonresponsive since this story was submitted.]
Also at Vice, Forbes, ZDNet, and SecurityWeek.
Related: Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
Washington State Fusion Center Accidentally Releases Records on Remote Mind Control
(Score: 3, Touché) by Kitsune008 on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:02AM (3 children)
I can confirm that no warning appears when clicking on the link from my browser, from this site.
So it is only a Twitter warning, and thus of little merit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:49AM
According to all the scanners at VirusTotal, including Google's SafeBrowsing, it is clean. VT also has no subdomains or pages with malicious content listed either.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by inertnet on Thursday June 25 2020, @07:57AM (1 child)
So that warning can be considered libel by Twitter.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:25PM
Oh please, oh please, oh please, that would be super funny to see. While I don't have personal grievances with "social media platforms", I would find it funny, if they shot themselves in the foot. Four Score and Seventy times, or however many times it would take to get some actual privacy laws "with a computer".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:04AM (4 children)
I can confirm that I have no interest in Twitter or the twats who tweet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:15AM
Too bad, if you got in a few years ago the stock has done very well.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:42AM (1 child)
Really? Cause not long ago you were quite upset about one tweeter getting fact checked and equated it with literal censorship.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @09:08AM
Sounds like a case of multiple anonymous personality disorder.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:19AM
On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Twelve tweeting twats
...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Username on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:18AM (13 children)
I'm pretty sure the wikileaks stuff came out before these rules came into place. Most of these types of rules came from hilary losing the election. Also, they're pretty good about redacting material, did ddos leave in personally identifiable infromation for random nobodies? aka doxing?
Also... they have DDoS in their name. Come on... That's like my org being called SellHeroin420 and wondering why I get blocked yet Pfizer doesn't.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:40AM (12 children)
Pardon? Why?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @12:53AM (11 children)
Because he's too intellectually impaired or dishonest to come up with anything but "hillary durr butthurt libtards"
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:22AM
Oh, I get it.
Weird.
(Score: 4, Touché) by khallow on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:22AM (9 children)
Sounds uncomfortably close to the truth. There wasn't a lot of interest in regulating Twitter, fake news, and the like until Trump won.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Booga1 on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:41AM (6 children)
True, but before he won it was usually easy to tell the difference between news and satire. These days I have to go look stuff up on my own before I can believe anything from just about anyone. At this point my knees are going to be arthritic from all the jerking if I don't.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:48AM
How could you possibly be jerking it with your knees?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:54AM (2 children)
Really?
(Score: 5, Touché) by Booga1 on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:02AM (1 child)
See! It's gotten so bad you won't even believe me when I'm talking about my own opinion!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:47AM
(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.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 25 2020, @05:29PM (1 child)
Other than, y'know, Trump constantly talking about how he wants to regulate Twitter...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 25 2020, @11:03PM
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2020, @01:39AM (1 child)
Wikileaks gave us good stuff to ponder. AFAIK this just doxed a bunch of cops so people could attack them. I've seen 0 discussion about the terrible police secrets in their "leaks".
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:00AM
It's not targeted like doxing is, but it's not sanitized or filtered either. It'll be full of names, addresses, and details for suspects, perhaps some names and addresses for some witnesses and bystanders. It will almost certainly have names and statements from other first responders like medics and firemen, etc... Chances of it having home addresses or even phone numbers for the cops is almost non-existent since those are employment records, not on-duty records or evidence. The cops are probably the least exposed in comparison to everyone else they come in contact with when it comes to case data.
A random dump of hundreds of gigs of material is considerably tougher to dig through than something where almost everything is shady dealings(ala the Panama papers). I expect it will be a long time before any discussion of what "terrible police secrets" are in there. I'd bet 90% or more of what's in the dump is standard stuff that won't interest anyone.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Thursday June 25 2020, @03:10AM
https://emma.best/things-emma-did-at-cia/ [emma.best]
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday June 25 2020, @02:10PM (2 children)
I now believe wikileaks was comprimised in 2016, and everything the organization has done since then has been ineffectual, except to get trump elected. As I despise hrc and trump equally as zionist traitors, and cult avatars(unless trump has been replaced by a body double, which would explain why he has recently been about 10x smarter than we once knew him to be, still not saying much...), this was not that much of a big deal.
But since 2016, wikileaks has done exactly nothing besides advocate for julian assange, with the help of twitter.
Also I used my @decultification to test the nature of some of the pilot fish accounts around the wikileaks official account, and I can tell you for certain "@wikileaksart" is not legit. If anyone is capable of running something like that without experiencing the type of state harassment I experience, they are part of the state.
The main way to tell state agents is by their utter inefficacy, and by the ease with which any of their mistakes slips out of the mind of media owned by israeli traitors.
shill response package
https://archive.is/IZsOB [archive.is] standard response
https://archive.is/rWnr8 [archive.is] forums
https://archive.ph/EdHYz [archive.ph] jtrig explained
https://archive.is/iOckl [archive.is] eglin info
https://archive.is/Hwtzh [archive.is] voat shills
https://archive.is/ZAK08 [archive.is] admitted shill
https://archive.is/zXqBM [archive.is] cointelpro facts
https://archive.is/toJtg [archive.is] twitter bots academically analyzed
https://archive.is/T4nXC [archive.is] 25 disinfo
https://archive.is/8iqjM [archive.is] agent rage
https://archive.is/fYnfb [archive.is] propaganda model
https://archive.is/vdVn5 [archive.is] alt saidit
https://archive.is/uZI5P [archive.is] hopeless
https://archive.is/SoybE [archive.is] apple bananas (what twitter is doing here)
https://archive.is/8TQss [archive.is] organic promotion
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths [meaningness.com]
https://meaningness.com/comment/2493#comment-2493 [meaningness.com]
https://archive.is/p3o4m [archive.is] nihilist
https://archive.is/q5343 [archive.is] you do not fit in here
There is no place left on the internet for individuals, as I am demonstrating. The platforms and every forum will run game on you until you give up, and they will do everything to frame you as a violent person, ruin your career, and stalk you in person.
And anyone who might help you will never be able to tell for certain if you are one of them, due to the prevalence of avatars, not unlike assange, and numerous accounts at this site. Nor does the public have any resources to defend itself anymore after decades of economic warfare against the middle class, leaving only an upper class of psychopath insiders(or so they think) and a mob of poor people who can barely help themselves.
Make no mistake, rom the point of view of the founders of the united states, the current state of the nation is the worst case scenario.
The government and military is at war with against the population, against its better judgement and begrudgingly, for an oligarch class who is trying to dissolve the country itself. And while trying to fend off actual enemies, and being turned against our natural allies.(see tariffs against EU, and split with criminal court over israeli agression that would make hitler blush)
Wish I could help, but no one will let me.
https://archive.is/ZinJT [archive.is]
https://archive.is/dUuM8 [archive.is] fauci and friends
https://archive.is/0uiBb [archive.is] white black
https://archive.is/OPkTH [archive.is] master plan gfx
https://archive.is/HTALt [archive.is] i trust
https://archive.is/Vk4cw [archive.is] how this is white supremacy i will never understand
https://archive.is/jkjA6 [archive.is] wiki before after (clock striking 13....)
https://archive.is/fqA0X [archive.is] maybe mr capote said it best
https://archive.is/Eu1Z4 [archive.is]
You do not have a religion or a club if that club is trying to take over political power secretly, what you then have a is a cult, not a religion.
They might poison my toothpaste for dare saying this.
https://archive.is/Hmsx7 [archive.is]
Good times.
If I had one short message to the rich cultist dipshits ruining the world, this might be it:
https://archive.is/G3JtL [archive.is]
But I know better, if they werent hellbent on turning this place into hell they would have thought of this already.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @02:19AM (1 child)
Wow. I'm actually afraid to click on any of those links, not due to the Deep State, but for fear of what I might catch from them. I haven't felt this way since I blacklisted goatse and tubgirl years ago. Good job?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2020, @04:08AM
Eh, they aren't stupidly obscene, just obscenely stupid. He can't even meme right. Like that last one, totally shits all over the "what if I told you meme" with an unnecessary second part. But I guess that's a given, since he doesn't know what a meme is.