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What did they do? What did you do?

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The previous account representing the open source projects I develop was handed over to someone else. Twitter simply handed it over to them after they sent a letter from his lawyer claiming ownership of it. I was never contacted at all. I never had a chance to present my side.

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It was connected to my email account and phone number. It had 2-factor authentication enabled. Mine is the original phone number associated with the account. Twitter doesn't respect individuals or open source projects, only corporations. I simply want a discussion with them.

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I want to have it explained why they hijacked the account used for my open source work and handed over private communications to someone hostile to the projects. They've caused immense harm and have set back not only these projects but the upstream projects benefiting from them.

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Which accounts were stolen?

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My Reddit account /u/strncat was suspended due to false reports rather than stolen. My previous Twitter account was stolen and renamed back to the branding that had been dropped by the projects it represented.

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There was an agreement in place about the separation of the corporation and the open source projects, and it was completely breached. Twitter helped with breaking the terms of the arrangement by enabling the theft of my account. I spent years representing my work from it.

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The corporation is Copperhead, correct? What is your official title within the organization?

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I'm not associated with it anymore, so I don't have a title. The open source projects were independent from it and have been moved to the AndroidHardening & AndroidHardeningArchive organizations on GitHub. I'm getting new domains for the projects and can come up with new naming.

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The open source work was not done for Copperhead under either work contracts or an employment agreement. There was no copyright assignment, and I never granted any formal licenses to them. It was also explicitly agreed that the projects were independently controlled / owned.

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I would not have been working for Copperhead if it hadn't been agreed upon that I could do the open source work without interference from the company and without them owning it or controlling it. That's what was agreed, and then they decided they didn't like the arrangement.

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The company was not supposed to be built entirely around these projects. It was supposed to be primarily based on security consulting work, and it was never expected that it wouldn't have products other than branding and selling my open source projects. It's a failed business.

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The business became entirely dependent on these projects and increasingly focused on earning money at all costs regardless of the original goals. There was conflict about ethics and the direction long before they tried to seize control / ownership and demanded my signing keys.

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