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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So because the accounts in question had a mixture of both official Copperhead and non-Copperhead work, they claimed to own them. Am I understanding correctly?
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The was a past conflict, and the accounts had been split into a corporate account () and the open representing the underlying open source projects (), which had been renamed based on not being associated with Copperhead branding anymore when seized.
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It used my email and phone number, for years. I moved from a copperhead.co email to a gmail.com email before the events leading up to things falling apart too. The action Twitter took was rolling it back to the past email to allow Copperhead to seize it.
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Having a phone number with 2FA didn't accomplish anything. A security key doesn't matter either. They simply did recovery via the email account after it had been rolled back, deleted all my tweets about what had happened to cover it up and got all of my direct messages about it.
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At no point was I contacted about it and given a chance to talk to someone at Twitter or have them talk to my lawyer. I didn't receive any notice that it had been seized via the email it used or the phone number. No one at Twitter has replied to many attempts to contact them.
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Twitter didn't even make a decision about a dispute over ownership. They didn't look into the situation. They got a letter from a corporation about a conflict with an individual and sided with the corporation without a second thought. There was never any dispute process at all.
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People followed that account for the technical coverage of the open source privacy and security work. That's entirely gone now that it was seized by people with no involvement in the development of those projects. I created the projects and own the entirety of them, not them.
There are many people now confused at why it has become a soulless corporate marketing account advertising a new OS not tied to the original projects and developers, spreading falsehoods and retweeting random Android security news without understanding it.
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The role played by Twitter and Reddit in harming myself and these projects is significant. They enabled it to be as bad as it is and caused harm beyond just these projects. They attacked the Android security community and indirectly hurt progress on Android / mobile security.
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