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A comment on Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years. Parent comment

Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by PhasmaFelis on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:29PM (#18943716)
Am I missing something? That seems to be equivalent to "the innocent have nothing to fear" in assuming that no one is ever persecuted who doesn't deserve it.
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by VikingCoder on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:05PM (#18945069)
I think everyone here is misinterpreting what I meant, and I take full responsibility for that. I think we thought of computers and the internet as our allies in privacy. They are not. They are our enemies.

I think we should stop trusting computers, any computers, as much as we possibly can.

Especially if you're in a minority that your government may try to punish. (PS, that's anyone.)

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