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Worth remembering if you’re a wanted fugitive.
I can’t leave Twitter again unless I go back.
Just stop using Twitter. I’m so glad I erased myself from the Internet and I would encourage others to do the same. Thought crimes are actually going to be a thing, because America is now fully fascist. Some people will find out what it’s like to live in a fully authoritarian country. Don’t be one of them if you can avoid it.
Twitter and all of the other sites you left still have your data. It’s just not public. The internet is forever unless the company literally nosedives and all of their servers are wiped. And even then, there might be some backup on someone else’s servers.
Well, yes, of course. Are you suggesting people stay on twitter because it’s too late?
I’m saying it’s too late to erase yourself from the internet. The best you could do is not make it worse for yourself, which would involve quitting Twitter.
But if there was any indication on any social media site that you’re queer, even if you think the data has been erased, you could be in big trouble soon.
Well I never really used Twitter much and stopped years ago. And I realize I cannot totally erase myself but I did a pretty exhaustive job a few years ago. Trying to maintain as much privacy as I can. I can’t erase the past but I can abate my concerns moving forward
Even before… all this… anyone still on Twitter was an asshole.
Stop visiting the Nazi bar.
I post photos online, and despite the fact that the platforms (Tumblr, and I think Pixelfed too?) scrub exif data, I do it manually anyway.
Pro tip:
exiftool -overwrite_original -All= file.jpgWorth remembering that if you send something to an external website, what they do with it is completely outside of your control.
Trust no company with your information.
If you’re still hanging out with Nazis you deserve whatever happens to you.
No idea why anyone that’s not racist, sexist, or has a reasonable level of intelligence is still on that site.
My friend was way into it for news directly from journalists and had been on the site since the beginning. As soon as Trump’s victory was secure he deleted his account and moved to BlueSky.
Time to leave that site to the deplorables and move on.
Sure glad I never had a Xitter account.
What is EXIF data? Location and time stamp? How do you remove that from photos and videos?
Or for a one-off, copy the image in one program and paste it into another. Then it’s just pixels.
It is metadata that can include what type of camera took the photo and precise location from GPS. I open photos in GIMP and then export them, taking care to uncheck the exif and a couple other metadata options.
One way is to take a screenshot of the photo. Or load and save in a different format. Or use image sharing sites that remove metadata (imgur used to be the standard one, not sure what’s good now)
Scrambled Exif on F-Droid to wipe it.
Photo, share, choose Scrambled Exif, wait two seconds, share screen comes back, share with friend, and it sends the picture but not the privacy violations.
If you don’t think every major US site has been freely giving your data to the government for 20+ years, you’re painfully naive. US law has never required a warrant for this type of thing due to the Third Party Doctrine.
What are the odds someone still on Twitter today knows or cares about infosec?
This is basically good advice BUT it would have been equally relevant under Dorsey.
Isn’t Dorsey in charge of Blue Sky?
No, he left.
WTF? What a wild resume ride:
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[1] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, where she soldered together bitcoin mining equipment.[1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[1][3][4] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.[1][3][4]
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[5][6][7] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter’s original owners in 2019, but evolved to become Twitter’s main rival following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[3][4][8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber
Edit: I had no idea he left. He thinks X is awesome now, glad he’s gone. https://time.com/6974971/jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board/
There’s no reason to have anything older than 12 months on Twitter, just auto delete anything older.
Even 6 months should be good.
If you’re the type who uses Twitter as a blogging platform, grab that shit and self-host it.
If you are the type that thinks any of the for profit tech companies are deleting your data I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
It’s not for the companies, it’s for the keyboard warriors looking for dirt when they get angry.
Case in point: James Gunn getting fired because of decade old tweets
