Category: Social Media

Social Media Technology

Twitter’s Birdwatch is Fundamentally Flawed

Post author By Soatok
Post date January 27, 2021
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The fatal flaw of Birdwatch’s current design and how it can be fixed.

Tags bullshit, computer security, enumerating badness, misinformation, Social Media, Twitter

Cybercrime Social Media

Putting Scammers on Scan on Twitter

Post author By Soatok
Post date December 11, 2020
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Earlier tonight, someone decided to change their Twitter handle and display name to impersonate a furry and solicit money to the scammer’s PayPal account. This is the same kind of lazy technique that script kiddies use to phish people for passwords, but more targeted. The goal is to dupe someone into sending the scammer money […]