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A) people don't know for sure whether Snowden has access to his twitter account. They're relying on twitter to keep everything in order. B) twitter will know w
by oneloop 10y ago
A) people don't know for sure whether Snowden has access to his twitter account. They're relying on twitter to keep everything in order.
B) twitter will know which of Snowdens 2.29 million followers who could have read the tweet, actually read the tweet. Depending on how fast he deleted it and the level of activity of his followers, I'm guessing this number will be in the thousands. Actually, if this was a concerned of Snowden, then it wouldn't make sense to delete it, which makes me think this wasn't a concern for him.
- dredmorbius 10y agoBoth reasonable responses, but not necessarily valid. A is addressed by the nature of a hash. The person who needs to know, will know. Those who don't, can't be sure. If the source of the hash was communicated by other means (out of band), then the hash itself might be serving to confirm that Snowden himself does influence what's sent over that Twitter account. B is possible, yes, though again, the tweet and hash itself can be replicated across multiple systems, and were. You'd have to look not only at Twitter access, but at all recipients of that message across all possibly channels. Though the likelihood of one of Snowden's followers who accessed the tweet while it was up being the intended target is probably fairly high.