I'm going to share a handy tip for the dox averse here, which is how to potentially see that you are being catalogued for a takedown, and how to remove yourself from automated content cataloguing on archive.org
Anons in particular pay attention heed below:
Anons in particular pay attention heed below:
One of the chief fingerprints you need to watch for to see if an adversary is performing collection on you, is to check and see if your twitter account is being archived on archive.org. It's not the only way, but it's the easy way. Free, reasonably immutable, etc.
Check the site and search for handle> and make sure the search tab is looking for "Archived Web Sites"
Then you want to choose the "URL's" option, which will show you every existing snapshot not just of your root URL, but individual tweets.
Then you want to choose the "URL's" option, which will show you every existing snapshot not just of your root URL, but individual tweets.
If you're an anon with anywhere from 5 followers to 5 thousand and there are people manually archiving individual tweets of yours, plus your main page, you are probably being set aside in a folder for some eunuch who is building a dossier on you.
Context matters as well, if there's a banger or two and that's it, maybe there's no need to be too paranoid. But if someone is systematically archiving tweets that could inconvenience you or get you in trouble, or push a narrative about you, that's a sign.
Opposition research groups do this to anons because we often have alts, burners, or multiple suspensions across several accounts. They don't want their intel they are gathering to be deleted by you, or not visible because you've been suspended.
Keep in mind that if they manually save screenshots of tweets, those aren't immutable and have plausible deniability as not being real. That and hosting/storage fees not being a problem is why archive.org is just the most obvious choice here.
The good news here, is that you can have your social media account excluded from the way back machine! But only if you still control the account and it's not suspended or deleted!
You can do this by emailing a GDPR request to the team at archive.
You can do this by emailing a GDPR request to the team at archive.
This is a template that you can personalize and send to the team at archive.org
Text copy at justpaste.it for easy copy/paste
But some important notes!
Text copy at justpaste.it for easy copy/paste
But some important notes!
Keep in mind that the email you create the ticket with does not need to be the email your twitter account is registered with. My preference was to put my email prefix without domain "4 archive.org" in my bio when I made the request. This does proof of ownership.
You also want to mention that it's the root URL and all downstream links, so they know you aren't -just- requesting an exclusion of the root URL, but every tweet, past/present/future that links to that account.
It doesn't matter if you live in Europe or not. Request is valid.
It doesn't matter if you live in Europe or not. Request is valid.
Don't be a dummy and forget to change the fields I put in placeholders with using <> or you'll look like a dummy with an incomplete request.
Give them a business day or two and they should email you when it's been put in. If you look yourself and see this, rejoice!
Give them a business day or two and they should email you when it's been put in. If you look yourself and see this, rejoice!
Even if you're the type of guy who shitposts extra spicy and gets accounts banned every few weeks, I highly recommend you do this as soon as possible, and before you do anything else with regards to a new account or burner.
The reason for this, is because you cannot prove ownership of a suspended account. And if that suspended account already has archive.org copies set up, then that means your only route off the site for that account is appeal+unsuspension+GDPR Request.
Do this before someone knows you might be on their trail, because if they were lazy and their only backup of your tweets was on archive.org, then you've just hosed their research. I guarantee the Shorenstein mooks are doing this to all the best RW anons right now.
So the key takeaways:
If someone is snapshotting your tweets, they are hunting you.
You can prevent them from doing so, and most other methods they would fall back to are not immutable and you have plausible deniability to claim they are fake if in a pickle.
Enjoy frens
If someone is snapshotting your tweets, they are hunting you.
You can prevent them from doing so, and most other methods they would fall back to are not immutable and you have plausible deniability to claim they are fake if in a pickle.
Enjoy frens
Also keep in mind that just because you're on there with a timestamp doesn't guarantee it's not a bot that is crawling twitter on the cheap.
Even if that's the case, it's doing the work for the opposition in case they *want* to look at you. Exclude thyself.
Even if that's the case, it's doing the work for the opposition in case they *want* to look at you. Exclude thyself.
Also don't forget this works on any and all social media, including your personal ones like Facebook and insta
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