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I swear I saw someone mention this a month or two ago in HN comments. They said that they believed Twitter's API was being used to unmask accounts by state acto
by milofeynman 7y ago
I swear I saw someone mention this a month or two ago in HN comments. They said that they believed Twitter's API was being used to unmask accounts by state actors. I can't find the original article now.
- jsnell 7y agoYou're thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873229 That was slightly different, since at that time the only information we had that this unethical "security researcher" had exploited the bug for months on billions of phone numbers and only disclosed it once Twitter blocked them. This announcement is different in that Twitter appear to be saying that this was being abused by other actors as well.
- milofeynman 7y agoThat was exactly the comment. Thank you! It sounds like everyone and their mother was exploiting the API based on today's post. Thanks again.