> But there may something else going on here. It is possible that Zu’s approach to tweeting — that is, responding to or addressing other Twitter users without i

> But there may something else going on here. It is possible that Zu’s approach to tweeting — that is, responding to or addressing other Twitter users without invoking the intended recipient’s Twitter handle — is something of a security precaution. After all, he had to know and even expect that security researchers would try to reconstruct his conversations after the fact. But this is far more difficult to do when the Twitter user in question never actually participates in threaded conversations. People who engage in this way of tweeting also do not readily reveal the Twitter identities of the people with whom they chat most. I love how Krebs has reframed "subtweeting" as some sort of new security practice as opposed to an annoying passive-aggressive thing everyone does from time to time :-D