Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

One of the most dangerous myths about the digital world is the idea that once something is online it’ll be available forever. Digital preservation is complicated, expensive, and many companies aren’t interested in doing it.

This is a serious problem…(here is a link to a Technology Review article about historical preservation and Twitter)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

if you want to be like me and on all the platforms all the time, ask your doctor about ADHD™

"Do you or did you since 2016 rent a Seattle apartment maintained by one of the following companies: Greystar, Trammell Crow Residential, Avenue5, Equity, Essex, FPI, Lincoln, Security Properties, AvalonBay or Thrive?"
If so, you can join a class action lawsuit against these companies for rent fixing.
https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/washington-rent-price-fixing-scheme

@mecfs does anyone know any Discord groups for post-viral diseases? a good friend of mine has what's increasingly looking like long COVID- rapidly declining health despite "nothing wrong with you" from the hospital- and she needs support.

must be trans friendly.

#mecfs #longCOVID

Possibly the most embarrassing security failure I've ever seen from a corporation was when Twitter admitted in 2018 they had found a "bug" that was writing every password from every login *in plaintext* to a log somewhere, before it got encrypted like passwords are supposed to when you store them. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/twitter-advises-all-users-to-change-passwords-after-glitch-that-exposed-some-in-plain-text/

Twitter never disclosed how long this had been going on, but they recommended EVERY Twitter user change their passwords, so potentially it went back to 2006.

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

I've seen a lot of people talking what-ifs of, with the new owner firing people at random and unplugging things without first finding out what they do, we might have a major event where Twitter goes down completely for days or something.

But what I haven't seen as much thought about is, what if during this same chaotic period, there is a major security incident? What makes that possibility alarming is *if it happens, we might never know about it*.

Twitter is high-profile enough that its threat model is not just "somebody publishes an exploit and teenagers wreak havoc for a day or two". Twitter is used by activists, journalists and governments, and the threat model includes "a nation-state penetrates the intranet and hijacks a legitimate employee's credentials". What worries me is a targeted attack, say, scraping a bunch of DMs by local dissidents, who all get mysteriously arrested in two weeks. Chaos makes that easier.

dramatic #caturday