Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has sent out unexpected warning notices to a number of users, informing them that their account might have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers. This is the first time Twitter is known to have sent out such notifications, and they're also recommending Tor and other privacy-oriented measures to these users. Among known recipients of the message are Coldhak, a Winnipeg-based nonprofit; Coldhak director Colin Childs; privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik; activists and cryptoparty organizer Cassie Traun; security researcher Noris Fabio; Tech writer and programmer David Robinson; and banker and mathematics student Jens Kubieziel (also the author of a book about anonymity on the Internet).

Comments

tor? twitter?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah right. twitter will ban your account. Source: I've twitter over tor and had my account banned. One tweet, not offensive or spammy.

Re:tor? twitter?

[gcnaddict]

These guys will probably be given usage exceptions then.

Re:tor? twitter?

[Mashiki]

Doubtful. Twitter already engages in banning people for wrongthink and forcing people to delete tweets that are engaged in wrongthink as well. You think they'll give an exemption to Tor users? I doubt it, more likely they'll bend over backwards and give the totalitarian governments a hand.

State-Sponsored attacks?

[rossdee]

so which states are sponsoring these attacks? I know that if I was living in one of those states I would be contacting the governor and my local state representative and senator about the waste of taxpayers money. They should be spending the surplus on roads and bridges (or giving us tax refunds if they were Republican s)