@liaizon network analysis. Who follows who, who boosts,...

@liaizon network analysis. Who follows who, who boosts, and faves. It would be hard to scrape all of that without being noticed.
And if anyone was using dms to organize, those are not private to the database.

It doesn't sound like this was a target of the raid. But it will give them a clearer view of the movement than the movement has of itself.

It's great intelligence for finding emergent leadership and good targets for turning into informants.

Like 1 Jul 2023 at 12:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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wakest ⁂

@laprice following/followers on kolektiva is public by default and available un logged in so that is trivial to scrape without notice. you can view that all from Tor easily. I guess its not already in a nice database format but that vector doesn't seen much different.

1 Jul 2023 at 12:56 | Open on social.wake.st

Accept purpose.

@liaizon having it all in one place enriched with the network of dm contacts would be slightly better than public information. But they probably have all of that through packet tracing anyway.

The longer term threat is that those connections are now recorded in their profiling graph and are available to machine learning efforts and usable by agents with bad agendas. (I.e. Arab teens that they groom into activists for counterterrorism clout)

1 Jul 2023 at 13:11 | Open on mastodon.social