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I guess posting a specific message on Twitter does similar to a classified ad.

• marginalia_nu 3y ago
  Twitter has the undesirable property that it's possible to find who is looking at a particular tweet (or user), unlike broadcast mediums such as radio or magazine classifieds, which present a much larger haystack.
• mdhb 3y ago
  A lot of botnets work this way where they will use something like Twitter or Reddit as a command and control channel but not a thing you would want to rely on if being identified might mean your life.
  • dabber 3y ago
    > A lot of botnets work this way where they will use something like Twitter or Reddit as a command and control channel but not a thing you would want to rely on if being identified might mean your life. For example, comments on Britney Spears' Instagram page: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/russian-hackers-turn-to-britney-spears-for-help-concealing-espionage-malware/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/russi...