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   Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 13:56:47 JST Marcus Hutchins :verified:

   As a security professional, not much scares me. I've seen my personal data stolen numerous times, watched nationstate hackers spray zerodays across the internet, and I'm a shameless user of TikTok. But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 13:56:45 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @malwaretech there needs to be a law to keep megalomaniacal narcissists to take over major comm channels that have the data of millions.

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     Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 19:59:28 JST Marcus Hutchins :verified:

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     We spent all this time saying what if China abuses user data harvested by TikTok, or what if China uses TikTok to manipulate public opinion. Now basically all that is happening but it's not TikTok and China, it's Twitter and a single emotionally unstable billionaire. Maybe the real threat wasn't TikTok after all, it was our reliance on social media in general.

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