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Cybersecurity Prof @YaleLawSch & @Lawfare | Founder @PrivacyLabISP at @YaleISP | CTO @PanquakePpl
Jan 11, 2022 18 tweets 13 min read
Just received a response from @GETTRofficial to our @tl_eng report. Their Global Communications Director @ebonybowden has emailed and asked us to publish a series of comments from their CEO @JasonMillerinDC. So we are. 1/ This thread will address Miller’s rebuttals point-by-point. In the images attached to these tweets, when GETTR quotes our article the text appears in quotation marks. GETTR responses appear in bold type.

Read our original @tl_eng report here: 2/ talkliberation.substack.com/p/gettr-app-re…
Jan 2, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
In addition to the issues @Suzi3D points out, it's important to highlight a few differences that separate the arch + design of Panquake.com from networks like GETTER and Parler. Short thread. First, we're taking #decentralization seriously. Panquake.com conversations are committed to a blockchain record which will be shared around the world. Users on the network will communicate and verify each other using peer-to-peer methods and strong encryption.
Feb 5, 2020 21 tweets 20 min read
I spent an hour last night analyzing the #IowaCaucasDisaster app that VICE reported on. There's nothing outwardly terrible from a privacy and security standpoint at first glance, but it may be worth digging more. Thread. 1/
vice.com/en_us/article/… The app is seemingly clean from malware and tracker SDKs, although there is some Google and Facebook code when I disassemble the classes.dex file. Exodus Scan output below (I had to use the CLI because the app is not in Google Play). 2/