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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
Personally, I feel like maintaining OSS *could* be one of the most fulfilling and impactful career paths. Too bad it’s not (currently) tenable. — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
On the more cynical side… if you’re going to burn out maintaining OSS, you might as well get paid in the process. — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
The world would be so much better off if maintaining open source software were a viable profession. One day…? — PolitiTweet.org
Filippo Valsorda @FiloSottile
We all agree the status quo is unsustainable. Here are 1,000 words on how we could get the role of Open Source mai… https://t.co/nOCpY4khPa
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @yazicivo: Log4j maintainers have been working sleeplessly on mitigation measures; fixes, docs, CVE, replies to inquiries, etc. Yet noth… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
Copying @steveklabnik’s Twitter bio, as per the licensing agreement set out in said bio — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @elegant_wallaby: Some thoughts on the complexities that bogged down @Meta's E2EE efforts, and hopefully some hints at a way forward:… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
@fatma_karume, we thought you might be interested in this investigation. Pro-government accounts used copyright reporting to silence activists and critics. — PolitiTweet.org
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman
2/ A pro-Tanzanian government network adversarially leveraged copyright reporting to harass activists. The scheme w… https://t.co/n7H2VShiWY
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
Finally, this takedown was one of several published today. You can read about all of them here: https://t.co/d3YqYU27TM — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
And see @shelbygrossman's great thread on this takedown for more info: https://t.co/RO7WgjJHQ9 — PolitiTweet.org
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman
4/ 3) Then they backdated the post to make it look like it was posted prior to the tweet. Here’s source code from a… https://t.co/uxyVhLP9MD
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
Check out the full report here: https://t.co/V9ape0PFlf — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
With just these two timestamps, we could confidently say the dates were spoofed. And there's nothing special about what we did here. All we had to do was click "inspect element" to find this metadata. But even simple techniques (like this one) can be incredibly revealing. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
They posted the page at 2:19 pm on Oct 2. Then, they manually set the date back to Sep 27 — but they didn't bother to change the hour/minute fields. (Or they just didn't notice.) Then, they pasted the activists' tweet into the post, and clicked "save" two minutes later. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
On one page, the publication date was 2:19 pm on Sep 27. The last updated date was 2:21 pm on Oct 2. Invisible <time> tags in the page source gave us this minute-level resolution (see screenshot below). Why are the times so similar? Here's what we think happened... 4/ https://t.co/lYHHCXvOEo — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
The answer: page metadata. Although they spoofed the pages' publication dates, they didn't realize that their WordPress site also embedded the *last update time* in the source of each page. When we compared the published v. updated timestamps, their scheme became clear. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
Then, they submitted a DMCA copyright complaint to Twitter. Since it looked like their spoofed version came first, Twitter took down the tweets. Shelby's thread describes this takedown in much more detail. Here, I just want to highlight *how* we discovered the date spoofing. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
New takedown from @StanfordIO! A pro-Tanzanian government network abused DMCA complaints in an attempt to silence critics and activists on Twitter. How? They copied the critics' tweets, posted them on a WordPress site, then spoofed the publication date to predate the tweet. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @shelbygrossman: 1/ We have a bunch of Twitter takedown reports out today. The two I worked on are among the most interesting networks I… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @BryanBanksPhD: Whoever made this is my new favorite person. https://t.co/H4wHA4rG2S — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @zackwhittaker: New: Apple has alerted some users in Thailand, El Salvador and Uganda warning that their iPhones were hacked with NSO Gr… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @shelbygrossman: Political science friends: A new job board started yesterday for trust & safety and policy jobs in tech https://t.co/VV… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @MikeMcQuaid: Being an open-source maintainer in 2021: since yesterday I have: - people in my personal DMs calling me a douche for not… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @journalsafetech: ⭐️ The inaugural issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety comes out on Thursday. Join us for an hour on Friday,… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @jckarter: woah that was quick https://t.co/xt9IWCip5j — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
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R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @stanfordio: ON SEPT 14 Join @stanfordio for the next event in our E2EE Series: "Reactions to new proposals on end-to-end encryption"… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @recursecenter: The Recurse Center is 10 years old! Over the last decade our community has grown to include over 2000 programmers from 6… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @LauraEdelson2: Damon McCoy and I have gotten a tremendous amount of support over the last week, and I'm incredibly grateful for it. But… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
RT @drewharwell: Gettr, the Twitter clone by Trump's ex-spokesman @JasonMillerinDC, has no systems for detecting child exploitation imagery… — PolitiTweet.org
R. Miles McCain and 309 others @MilesMcCain
If you're interested in ongoing access to this sort of data, check out @SMAT_app, which is using GoGettr as part of their ongoing GETTR ingest. — PolitiTweet.org
