#10yrsago #Lavabit competitor #SilentCircle shuts down its secure email service, destroys servers https://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers/

#10yrsago Bikram “Yoga” Choudhury accused of rape, sexual harassment, racism, homophobia, and unsafe practices related to the color green https://jezebel.com/bikram-yoga-founder-hates-sluts-and-fatties-loves-talk-1068127138

#10yrsago More on the #NSA’s weird, deceptive, indefensible definition of “#TargetedSurveillance” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once

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@wonkothesane @vantablack not even close.

#Crawlers can be detected very well and usially blocked or at least throttled down to be less effective than single, human users.

Whereas #Federation inevitably necessitates to allow access to huge amounts of data, even if it's just public posts and profiles...

But still, that is valuable #MassSurveillance that #NSA wants to gather and sell to any #SurveillanceState, as it's more cost-effective than #targetedSurveillance necessitating operator hours.

#thread on #spyware #targetedsurveillance #NSO #Pegasus @Meta@twitter.com takes down surveillance-for-hire firms, calls for government action against the industry by @SuzanneMSmalley@twitter.com & @TonyaJoRiley@twitter.com on @CyberScoopNews@twitter.com