It's true!
I have Mastodon on one tab and twitter on the next.
I am truly a different person when I go from one to the other.
I become angry, sarcastic on twitter.
Calmer, more open, constructive here.
Amazing.
@PeteStrzok
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26 year FBI and Army veteran. Georgetown School of Foreign Service adjunct professor and alum. NYT/WP bestseller: Compromised
@HiFi
You can check the user name of my verified Twitter account - for as long as Twitter is around
You can check the user name of my verified Twitter account - for as long as Twitter is around
@golux13
The best (and so far only) way I've found to verify accounts is to cross-reference with citations in other places I know to be true/accurate, e.g., verified Twitter account, known website
The best (and so far only) way I've found to verify accounts is to cross-reference with citations in other places I know to be true/accurate, e.g., verified Twitter account, known website
Zach DorfmanSo what’s the likelihood that people in intel services across the world are being tasked to spin up Mastodon strategies/explainers to seniors right now
You may make yourself a target of state and non-state actors. How good is your network security? What else do you use your intended server for? Will you use dedicated access to the internet? If not, what else will share that pipe? How is your local network configured? How ready are you to respond to requests from national and international law enforcement compelling you to produce data?
- what are the most effective ways to set up channels for disinformation/influence operations?
- What are the most effective ways to undermine legitimate users?
- What are the most effective ways to undermine the entire platform? (Whether in general or to a specific topic/country)
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- Who owns the servers? Who set up new ones?
- How vulnerable are they to penetration? Can we compromise? Set up our own? Find/recruit agents to get trusted access?
- In particular, are there any new, well intentioned but less savvy users we should target (for everyone finding out “wow it’s easy to host!,” how good is your network security? What else do you have on the computer you’re using as a server? What else in on that local network?)
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Oh for sure they are. Interesting #counterintelligence exercise is thinking through the questions/directions being asked:
- Which servers (sorry, “instances” feels unnecessarily obtuse) are all the migrating a) govt/former govt employees, b) journalists (esp those covering national security, international affairs, and politics), c) dissidents relocating to?
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@KristinKim @[email protected]
Thanks. For those of us without our own website, is there a similar, linkable, proof of bonafides?
It’s also easy to account spoof: I’m @PeteStrzok, but that doesn’t prevent someone from creating (on existing or new severs they make) @[email protected], @[email protected], etc.
Make sure you verify the account you’re following is in fact the person you think it is. An old article (would welcome an updated version):
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2017/04/mastodon-risks/amp
None of this is meant to disparage Mastodon - just noting things to keep in mind.