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Photo leaked in Twitter Files reveal Twitter staff had access to private direct messages

Noah Griffith
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Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:48 UTC

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After volume two of the Twitter files was released on Thursday night, Twitter users began to point out something inside of the photos that suggest that Twitter staff may have full access to private messages.

Journalist Bari Weiss dropped "part 2" of the bombshell "Twitter Files" that exposed the corruption that ran deep within Twitter under the former management. But after close examination, there appear to be even worse things at play in the Twitter Files series...

The photo was posted on Twitter at 7:36, just after the initial launch. The photo itself revealing the potential breach of privacy was found in the 16th tweet Weiss posted in the series, which contained damning evidence of the tech-giants ethics through the years.

Check out the photo in the tweet below. Note the circled message highlighted where Twitter may or may not have had access to the private messages of users:

Comment: This shouldn't be surprising and people should have already taken it as a given that literally everything one writes and does on a social media platform is tracked, logged, and stored. However, the type of access Twitter staff had and the legality of it may lead to some interesting lawsuits down the road.

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VooDoo6 · 2022-12-14T01:12:54Z

Do people think twitter is really going to develop a morale conscious of sorts, not hardly. Of course they had full access. It would be ignorant & beyond naive to think or suggest otherwise. It’s their software, they’re design, they’re Circus Freak Show. It was always designed as an information as a spy tool for gathering/distribute/control/monitor/disinformation central brain hub. ALWAYS. There never was an honest, altruistic or pro US Constitution protected rights intention from the get go.

Heosphorus ·

VooDoo6

· 2022-12-14T02:59:58Z

Artex · 2022-12-14T16:00:05Z

VooDoo6 It would not be ignorant to think otherwise. I work in fintech now and have worked for 3 different software companies, and that kind of access to user information does not exist under extreme financial penalty, which will be found when you are audited.

That doesn't mean the information cannot be collected and unencrypted (if it had been in the first place). It just means Twitter prior to musk was the antithesis of a responsible tech company that has to operate by existing regulations and best practices.

I don't know if Twitter will have a moral conscious under Musk. I'm still on the fence as to whether he's the antichrist or not. Time will tell. But Twitter 2.0 could hardly be worse if they tried. Twitter offers one product and had 11,000 permanent and another 7000 contract employees. I work for a company that produces literally dozens of different financial software products and had (when I started) about 40,000 employees worldwide. You don't need 18,000 employees for something as simple as Twitter ( especially considering the lack of best practices and audits that other industries like finance, healthcare, and education have to submit to), unless you're really an influence operation with a mysteriously bottomless purse.

Artex · 2022-12-14T16:04:50Z

Artex Also, with all the spy tools their trust and safety team developed, it made it very easy for law enforcement to obtain data from users. This is why most companies don't have those kinds of tools. You can't give to law enforcement something you don't have, and no company should want to be involved in that kind of situation. You collect what is required by law. No more, no less.

To me it's unfathomable that the people who developed and used those tools couldn't imagine a time and place where it would come back to bite them in the ass or be used against them when the political climate turns.

VooDoo6 · 2022-12-14T18:19:04Z

VooDoo6 It would not be ignorant to think otherwise. I work in fintech now and have worked for 3 different software companies, and that kind of access to user information does not exist under extreme financial penalty, which will be found when you are audited.

That doesn't mean the information cannot be collected and unencrypted (if it had been in the first place). It just means Twitter prior to musk was the antithesis of a responsible tech company that has to operate by existing regulations and best practices.

I don't know if Twitter will have a moral conscious under Musk. I'm still on the fence as to whether he's the antichrist or not. Time will tell. But Twitter 2.0 could hardly be worse if they tried. Twitter offers one product and had 11,000 permanent and another 7000 contract employees. I work for a company that produces literally dozens of different financial software products and had (when I started) about 40,000 employees worldwide. You don't need 18,000 employees for something as simple as Twitter ( especially considering the lack of best practices and audits that other industries like finance, healthcare, and education have to submit to), unless you're really an influence operation with a mysteriously bottomless purse.

Been in the IC biz for years. Used & seen it with my own two eyes. The pass down, master codes/wizard codes/PFM codes, favors, access to codes, panels, back doors etc. Access Keys to control panels - back door encryption protocols are exchanged via new agency employees entering & departing - privatization allows the underground chimera networks to operate w/ transparency. Like most things in life are these days what is shown is not remotely how it works in reality behind the curtain of Oz. The networks have already been fused seamlessly this way for years. They capture it all server end point to end point. Just like the notion that 5 eyes is only 5 eyes when it’s been at least 14 eyes for years now. Best practices is a misnomer & disregarded. The Covid-19 Hoax was just another example of farce of Medical Best Practices. Collective Mass psychosis would be a more fitting label & explanation than the altruistic notion that Best Practices are being adhered to. That notion of Best Practices ship set sail long ago. We can clearly see they aren’t & haven’t been for many years now.

Certainly free to not agree or think differently. No problem there. The scope, scale & totality is so much larger than many people can comprehend.

HOW PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR HELPED THE NSA SPY ON THE WHOLE WORLD [Link]
DATAMINR [Link]

Artex · 2022-12-14T18:27:26Z

VooDoo6 I concede. Have mercy!

I guess it really depends on the company. I just know that people would spend real time in real jail if half the shit Twitter was doing was going on here.

VooDoo6 · 2022-12-14T18:45:23Z

VooDoo6 I concede. Have mercy!

I guess it really depends on the company. I just know that people would spend real time in real jail if half the shit Twitter was doing was going on here.

I agree 100%. And therein lies OUR collective problem ousting the Trojan Horse usurpers within & stop the nonsense.

VooDoo6 · 2022-12-14T23:12:09Z

Artex Also, with all the spy tools their trust and safety team developed, it made it very easy for law enforcement to obtain data from users. This is why most companies don't have those kinds of tools. You can't give to law enforcement something you don't have, and no company should want to be involved in that kind of situation. You collect what is required by law. No more, no less.

To me it's unfathomable that the people who developed and used those tools couldn't imagine a time and place where it would come back to bite them in the ass or be used against them when the political climate turns.

Twitter Still Has MANY Ex FBI/CIA Agents In High Ranking Positions [Link]
“It was commonplace for people to install WHATEVER software on their work systems. Twitter employees were repeatedly found to be intentionally installing SPYWARE on their workncomputers at the request of external organizations.”

Whistleblower disclosure

Clearly not too many were concerned with ”Best practices“ ethics.

Artex · 2022-12-15T14:03:58Z

VooDoo6 Very clearly.

VooDoo6 · 2022-12-14T18:42:46Z

Imo, they all collude/conspire/communicate at some nexus point. The tentacles of the Octopus are regenerative let’s not forget.

Dataminr is partly owned by Twitter, which has a nearly 5% stake in the service. It’s the only company Twitter authorizes to get at its entire public stream and sell it to clients, which include organizations in finance, corporate security, crisis management and the news.

A source told the WSJ that spying agencies first got access to Dataminr when In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of US intelligence, invested in the company: one of multiple investments in data-mining companies that also included Palantir Technologies Inc. and Recorded Future Inc.In-Q-Tel set up a pilot program with Dataminr. When it ended recently, Twitter told Dataminr it didn’t want to continue the relationship with intelligence agencies, the source said.In a statement sent to the WSJ, Twitter relegated the US government to the ranks of normal citizens, who are on their own when it comes to gleaning insight from a jumble of tweets.It said that its data is “largely public” and that the US government “may review public accounts on its own, like any user could. [Link]

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I can see this coming soon to a country near you. Anyone who does not comply will be accused of violating someone else's rights.

ReRan

Play in the dirt you're gonna get dirty. Quit whining and take your well-deserved lumps. LOL

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