Update on The Issue at Hand

Twitter's head of security @delbius

Nod, it's not something we'd do, nor from an email configured for mail. Sounds like forged headers.

With that and other tweets, Twitter has stated that the email mentioned last night was not from them. And that my week off Twitter was likely from this bug.

That bug doesn't actually explain what had happened to me, nor the following events of last night.

Facts:
Monday night through Saturday morning my phone could not access twitter via browser or apps. Nor would my password work from other sources. Yet suddenly Saturday afternoon the same pw (since changed) allowed me access.
Someone did send me that email. Someone apparently pretending to be twitter. As the email specifically acknowledged the issues I'd been having that someone either had been involved in blocking me from twitter or is on a very short list of people who saw my facebook describing the issues I was having.
Not long after first blogging about it, someone (not me) deleted the blogpost, which after finding that out I reposted and changed my blog's password.
After that my email was hacked and I lost access to my proof. At this point still waiting on google to help me recover my email account.

Summary:
Over the last week someone managed to block me for most of the week from twitter, then phished me with an apparently forged twitter email, and also managed to access my blog.

Conclusion:
Somewhere someone how I pissed someone off, and they set a trap for me. They're likely reading this. This someone hacked multiple sites, and so I would consider them dangerous.

Lessons:
Be careful who you piss off.
Make sure you're protected.
Always attach your proof to your accuastion, don't do them seperately.
Likely a good idea to share your proof with more powerful people before going public.

Reiteration:
For those that say I made this up, I didn't.
To my friends who never doubted me, thanks.
Again y'all be careful.


Addit: 10-4-12, had several people mention to me, during CPAC Colorado, that I was possibly one of the first victims of the Twitter gulag.

Why I Was Gone From Twitter

(Addit if you read this, go here afterwards.

This is a repost of a blog I posted earlier. I did not take the first one down…

I've been debating whether to make this a long or short story. I can't decide, so I'm just going to start writing.
Sunday night I found myself unable to access twitter via web or by any of the apps on my phone. When I woke Monday all was fine, til Monday night when everything was down again. Tuesday I still was unable to even access the login page, anyone's timelines, or get anything but a blank white page when I tried twitter's site.
At that point I asked a couple people if they'd heard of anyone else having problems. All came back negative, and so Wednesday afternoon I sent my first email to Twitter. Thursday evening another, around the same time I commented on Facebook about my troubles. Friday night another email, and Saturday another.
There never was any response to those.
Sunday afternoon however I suddenly had Twitter back. And I had an email from them.

"We at Twitter want to apologize for your issues over the last week. We were asked by a government agency to suspend your accounts while you were investigated for suspicious activity, including anti-government propaganda. We complied after being given a warrant from a federal judge. You have now been cleared, and your accounts reinstated. Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused."

The email goes on with information on how and who to contact their legal department to receive more information.

Y'all have seen my tweets. You know what they say. You know what I believe in and stand for. Somehow my desire for a return to Constitutionally limited government has put me on a government watch list. I'm cleared, for now, supposedly.
How many of you are on such a list for your tweets?


(Addit: remember to go here now.

Just Think

There are many things which set us humans apart from the rest of the creatures in our world. One of these greatest differences is our ability to think. All humans are capable of thought, though the way they express it may be different. If one loses the ability to think coherently, they are either considered disabled or insane. If one loses the ability to think at all, it is due to either a single extremely powerful emotion blocking out rational thought for a time or it is due to damage to the brain or death. There are different levels of thinking, subconscious and conscious. There are also different depths of thought ranging from shallow, only thinking of surface things, to deep philosophical thought, which ironically is at its most basic thinking about thinking.

For millennia all humans have thought. from the earliest hunter gatherer's focus on survival, to modern first world workers stressing about the commute making them late. Throughout all history those who could think beyond the normal level were either celebrated or mocked, sometimes both, and often one then later the other. Perhaps most important were the inventors of things such as arrows or spears, hoes and shovels, to later cars, planes, and computers. For these people gave the ability to their progeny of being able to devote more time to thought rather than just survival. As the inventors improved life and allowed for other ways of life to develop, the people this freed to begin these other ways of life, began attempting to improve life in other ways with philosophical beliefs into economics, government, society, etc. In this way man went from thinking solely about survival, taking steps further and further towards being able to not worry about it.

Yet whilst man still invents, the ability to think seems to be diminishing. More and more of the population seems to be content letting others think for them. They show this with their choice in government types that no longer represent more freedom, but less. They show this by their complete devotion to mass media, that which used to be a pleasure now runs all too many lives. They show this by not even caring as their neighbors begin pointing out their loss of freedom, instead they spout the words the media gives them about how they're gaining freedom, as select people continue taking it from them.

This is the danger facing mankind now. Not just the loss of freedom, but the loss of the ability to care about being free. The loss of the ability to think for one's self.

In the United States we are not just facing the gradual loss of physical freedom for ourselves, but the eventual loss of thought freedom in the whole world. The freedom for all that The United States of America stands for, represents the best in humanity. That all men can are created equally and can work together for the common good.

The only thing that government is meant to do is protect from threats and provide national stability. Government is not meant to run every aspect of our lives for us. It isn't even really supposed to provide a guide. If all men were good, then there would be no need for a government at all. But that isn't the case, some are bad, some are even evil. Government is there to protect the good from that bad and evil. That is all. That is the extent of what should be the government's boundaries. Beyond that is the power derived to We The People. It is time to get government our of our thoughts. It is time to get all of We The People thinking for themselves.

There is your challenge, think for yourself and encourage others to think for themselves as well.
Thinking is freedom. Thinking is life.
Just think.