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WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com)
WikiLeaks said on Twitter earlier today that it wants to publish the private information of hundreds of thousands of verified Twitter users. The group said an online database would include such sensitive details as family relationships and finances. USA Today reports: "We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts [and] their family/job/financial/housing relationships," the WikiLeaks Task Force account tweeted Friday. The account then tweeted: "We are looking for clear discrete (father/shareholding/party membership) variables that can be put into our AI software. Other suggestions?" Wikileaks told journalist Kevin Collier on Twitter that the organization wants to "develop a metric to understand influence networks based on proximity graphs." Twitter bans the use of Twitter data for "surveillance purposes." In a statement, Twitter said: "Posting another person's private and confidential information is a violation of the Twitter rules." Twitter declined to say how many of its users have verified accounts but the Verified Twitter account which follows verified accounts currently follows 237,000. Verified accounts confirm the identity of the person tweeting by displaying a blue check mark. Twitter says it verifies an account when "it is determined to be an account of public interest." Twitter launched the feature in 2009 after celebrities complained about people impersonating them on the social media service.
> I was a supporter when they were releasing information in a non-partisan and unbiased way.
You mean back when they were dumping on Bush, right? Yeah, that was quality stuff. I like how you do not, because you cannot, prove that any of their info is bad. You just don't like the results when your side's dirty tricks end up exposed.
I don't have a side in this, Republican or Democrat. I hope they keep Trump (and all the successors) in line, too. I supported Obama back in the day, but arming the "moderate" Islamic terrorists and trying to trash our diplomatic prospects on his way out is a pretty crappy way to go, even worse than Clinton trashing the place before leaving and stealing all the 'W' keys.
The Russia stuff is crap and we've debunked it pretty savagely. Hell, there's even an email (from months ago) talking about playing up Trump's Putin "bromance." I've commented on that stuff pretty extensively. It's disturbing how many Ds believe that fake news or think the election tallies themselves were somehow altered, and not just the usual "we have secret evidence" nonsense from noted liar Clapper.
Please do tell me more about how the Russian government relies on outdated copies of the Ukranian malware, P.A.S. or how many of your detected IPs are Tor exit nodes. It's fascinating to see what you think passes for a state-sponsored hacking campaign. Then again, it probably does look that way to the people who think that getting a phishing email means you should reset your password, who lose their phones in DC cabs, or who use p@assword as a password....