This.
Susan Portnoy, the Russian-American former VP of magazine conglomerate Condé Nast now paid operative running campaigns meant to incite violence, interfere with elections and traumatize targets is correct, that loose lips sink criminal orgs like the one she is embedded within.
Brad Shuttleworth’s loose lips did.
By identifying Remi Barrette’s account Brad made it possible for everything else that came afterward.
Let’s rewind a bit.
On that date Remi Barrette illegally hacked into my Twitter account as a third party to reduce the spread of my Medium article on cyber-bullying that my favorite SLTribune cartoonist Pat Bagley retweeted.
At the time of Barrette’s illegal hack into my account there were strong suspicions that the network had a direct line of communication to someone at Twitter, or an inside man. While it was clear that inside man was Yoel Roth, evidence pointed to a higher likelihood that someone on the team had full administrative access allowing them to hack into and take over any account, should they so choose to do so. That tool, a computer program known as a console, allows Remi Barrette to spy on journalists, politicians, PACs and other targets, reading DMs, deleted messages and tweets, access private phone numbers, email addresses and IP addresses, see what devices are being used, to ban, to verify, to restore or remove verification and to apply banner messages on accounts he wants to convince Twitter staff to not restore by lying.
Had it not been for Brad’s haplessness I likely would never have caught the most prolific hacker in US history.
Really.
Brad helped tremendously with his posts meant to mock, that instead informed me of a new trick that I didn’t have time to research and learn otherwise on my own.
Recall the Ryushi hack motive Remi Barrette given creatively in Newsweek having Caroline Orr Bueno cite him to bypass rules on citing anonymous sources? I found that after a tutorial posted by Brad explained targeted keyword search for an entire website.
Again, thank you Brad for your service. You made it far more likely that you and your cohorts will be successfully prosecuted by speeding up my work significantly.