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Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee

RT @MichaelEHayden: A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, @Hatewat… — PolitiTweet.org

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@rzeta0 @find_evil @sz_law The US military doesn't promote Tor. They fund some of Tor Project, but only because they rely on an actual anonymity network that works — PolitiTweet.org

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@galaxy_argha @UberMinimal @janvlug @FreedomofPress @signalapp @WhatsApp @ioerror Did you all actually finish reading the whole article? I addressed all of these issues with WhatsApp — PolitiTweet.org

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@rzeta0 @find_evil @sz_law It's also open source, and is very transparent about how it works, and collaborates with researchers to improve it. Check out this blog I wrote years ago debunking one of these conspiracy theories https://t.co/IoVNoTeUBT — PolitiTweet.org

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@rzeta0 @find_evil @sz_law It's good to be skeptical, but there is a reason why journalists and activists promote Tor. It's fundamentally more trustworthy than many "products" because it was designed with that in mind, decentralized with no single entity in a position to backdoor it — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MEPFuller: The FBI Director testified before Congress a few weeks ago that white supremacy is the leading cause of domestic terrorism,… — PolitiTweet.org

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AT&T employees took bribes to plant malware on the company's network https://t.co/eNNQlvLUF1 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RashidaTlaib: Chairman Castro, They don't like it when you name their donors. The public needs to know who funds racism. https://t.co/7… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoaquinCastrotx: No one was targeted or harassed in my post. You know that. All that info is routinely published. You’re trying to di… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Castro4Congress: Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of ⁦@BillMillerBarBQ⁩, owner of th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Snowden: You might not know it, but Amazon runs basically half the internet on their cloud platform. Now they're cutting off the lifeli… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mrphs: Hey @awscloud if you ban all the Iranian devs from using AWS, and then other cloud companies follow suit, then where the heck ar… — PolitiTweet.org

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@galaxy_argha @janvlug @FreedomofPress @signalapp @WhatsApp Did you read the whole article, and everything that I wrote about WhatsApp? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliaAngwin: I am so grateful to be returning to @team_markup as Editor-in-Chief along with my incredible team of journalists. We are t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mediagazer: A deep dive into the methods used to unmask confidential sources in seven Justice Department cases against US government wh… — PolitiTweet.org

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El Paso gunman's fear of a migrant "invasion" echoed Donald Trump and Fox News https://t.co/C8aMEajkhW by @RobertMackey — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ewarren: Donald Trump is enabling white supremacy—and Republicans are enabling him. And when Congress and the American people have trie… — PolitiTweet.org

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@galaxy_argha @FreedomofPress @signalapp @WhatsApp WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, like Signal. I have yet to see any credible evidence that Facebook has backdoored WhatsApp's use of the Signal protocol and can access the content of e2e encrypted messages — PolitiTweet.org

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@galaxy_argha @FreedomofPress @signalapp @WhatsApp You mean this comparison in how they treat metadata? https://t.co/8ZFgcl6aGn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FreedomofPress: Must-read article by our board member @micahflee about how the US government has used its incredible surveillance power… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rsingel: Jesus this is scary. It makes clear that almost no fed employee can safely feed reporters sensitive info. It also shows how m… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rj_gallagher: This piece shines light on some of the methods the US government is using to track down whistleblowers & leakers -- a mus… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @inthesedeserts: fellas, is it gay to save humanity?? when you get down to it, you'll be rescuing a bunch of dudes https://t.co/JQS6zWs7… — PolitiTweet.org

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@X_Cli_Public @__dotblake They probably forwarded the TLS connection to the Signal server when domain fronting, so Google App Engine would see the encrypted traffic that anyone spying on a phone's internet could see without domain fronting. There's no reason to do anything else — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple didn't say if they handed over Edwards iMessage metadata. But they do retain this metadata for 30 days, and hand it to the FBI when ordered. However the iMessage metadata, in the form of "capability query logs," "do not indicate" that a message was actually sent https://t.co/ndYYdur9PZ — PolitiTweet.org

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WhatsApp didn't comment, but they routinely comply with pen register/trap and trace orders. In the last half of 2018, Facebook got 4904 pen register requests and responded with "some data" to 92% of them. So, good to know: Facebook gives the FBI WhatsApp metadata when ordered https://t.co/MlopCC5A0j — PolitiTweet.org

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Signal has confirmed they did not provide the metadata. All of the government requests they've ever responded to are listed here https://t.co/TvBrsOs6zS (it's just one, and Signal provided basically no information) https://t.co/AuNMCjZ49a — PolitiTweet.org

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But you can't see metadata from popular encrypted messaging apps just by spying on internet traffic. These apps encrypt communication to the server, so only the service itself can see who messages are sent to. So most likely, a messaging app complied with a court order — PolitiTweet.org

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Pen register and trap and trace orders allow the government to collect metadata from a phone, but doesn't define exactly how they get the metadata. It could be spying on the phone's internet, eavesdropping with a stingray, or ordering the service provider to hand it over — PolitiTweet.org

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During the investigation, the FBI got a "judicially-authorized pen register and trap and trace order" for her personal phone. Using this, they started receiving real-time metadata for an encryption messaging app -- but they don't name which app https://t.co/CBUckr1rEu — PolitiTweet.org