Note: I'm using Tor for Twitter for some time; however it is not (and has never been) a particularly rock solid anonymity solution for me. I'm mostly doing it for research: how an average Tor user, or a privacy-seeking user in general, is welcomed these days. I've had some issues with Twitter access recently. My post on this, as well as other related threads on tor-talk, are linked below. [1--4] Given all this, the following email (Received 2015-12-11 from info@xxxxxxxxxxx) is somewhat curious: > Dear @akater, > As a precaution, we are alerting you that your Twitter account is one > of a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state- > sponsored actors. We believe that these actors (possibly associated > with a government) may have been trying to obtain information such as > email addresses, IP addresses, and/or phone numbers. > At this time, we have no evidence they obtained your account > information, but weâre actively investigating this matter. We wish we > had more we could share, but we donât have any additional information > we can provide at this time. > Itâs possible your account may not have been an intended target > of the suspected activity, but we wanted to alert you as soon as > possible. We recognize that this may be of particular concern > if you choose to Tweet using a pseudonym. For tips on protecting > your identity online, you may want to visit the "Tor Project > (https://www.torproject.org/)" or EFFâs "Protecting Yourself on > Social Networks" > (https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/protecting-yourself-social-networks). I've got nothing to comment on actually. Posting this just for the record. Tor+Twitter related links (archive.seul.org; if there's a better source feel free to notify me in private), in reverse chronological order: [1] Re: [tor-talk] twitter tor block redux http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Dec-2015/msg00001.html [2] [tor-talk] twitter tor block redux http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Nov-2015/msg00117.html [3] [tor-talk] A little more hostility towards Tor from Twitter http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Oct-2015/msg00189.html [4] [tor-talk] tor + twitter issues http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Sep-2015/msg00054.html
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