Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
It would be nice if Twitter was a bit more intelligent about Tor usage. I wrote the BulkExitList feature on check.torproject.org for Wikipedia. They ironically use it to block edits from Tor. Twitter could use that export of data or a similar one to have a list of all current (updated per hour with the network consensus) exit nodes and then do something better than Wikipedia.
It's a surprising omission, particularly in light of the recent high-profile censorship of Twitter and other services enacted in Turkey. It also doesn't seem to be a particularly intelligent algorithm -- reminds me a bit of banks' standard for "suspicious card use" (where "suspicious" simply means that you're traveling a lot).
Let's think about this logically. If someone were to break into my account, the first thing that they'd likely want to do is change my password. Why is that the *only option* that Twitter allows when in this locked state?!
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