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Same is true on Twitter, only you’re not earned about it.

• judge2020 4y ago
  But there's also less of a reason for anyone with permission to read DMs @ Twitter to do so, possibly with logging for any audits into unauthorized access. For mastodon, chances are your instance is focused around some general interest and thus getting on an admin's bad side could mean abusing their power to extract personal information/DMs from your account. The only real issue with this wrt Twitter is that such failure of their internal employee auth allows malicious attackers to access DMs as well: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/twitter-admits-hackers-accessed-dms-of-dozens-of-high-profile-accounts/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/twitter-admits-hackers-acc...
  • ori_b 4y ago
    > But there's also less of a reason for anyone with permission to read DMs @ Twitter to do so, possibly with logging for any audits into unauthorized access. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/12/exclusive-extract-facebooks-engineers-spied-women/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/12/exclusive-extrac... I'd expect there to be many Facebookers who weren't caught, and I'd expect the same to be true of Twitter.
  • lrvick 4y ago
    Insider attacks happened at twitter. State actors love to read DMs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter
  • heavyset_go 4y ago
    People pay employees and contractors at social media companies to delve into others' accounts and messages all of the time. Some of them do it on their own without any outside influence, as well.