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2019-06-17 Cyber

Concerned Users Worry As Twitter Suspends Several ‘OSINT’ News Accounts

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 These are My Friends who have sent very good and reliable source Intel that I need to operate.

It's pissing me off.

Posted by newc 2019-06-17 00:50|| 2019-06-17 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Can information over Twitter be considered intelligence ? Though some analysts do use data generated from running patterns and language in posts through algorithms for intelligence, the reliability rating of that too is mostly E4.

The sources themselves could collaborate and have an independent portal to share stuff anonymously. Isn't Twitter like a "come-and-arrest-me" invite ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-17 02:39|| 2019-06-17 02:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Can information over Twitter be considered intelligence ?

Interesting question from a 'justification' to shut down for national security sort of angle. Censorship is censorship. The only question is who is doing it, not whether its ethical or not.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-17 08:16|| 2019-06-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 No, no. I'm totally for sharing intel, whistle-blowing and all. Hell, I even cheered for Snowden when his email dump buried Clinton's campaign.

I meant that sources should differ from the usual twitter riff-raff and have a separate platform, something whose credibility can be defined from the ground up. If I expose my NSA sealed files on twitter tomorrow, I look like another conspiracy nut looking for attention. So the credibility starts at a low number from the get go, even if my intel's good, no ? It gives the deniers and gaggers more leverage against me.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-17 08:32|| 2019-06-17 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 can confirm intelcrab is shutdown. this is why i love Rantburg being independently ran. Thank you to everyone who keeps it up!!!!

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2019-06-17 10:47|| 2019-06-17 10:47|| Front Page Top

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