@ericgarland in 2011 i worked at twitter on their security team. In my frist few months I realized the amount of access I would have to things like logs of failed logins and source IP information.
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after a few months, I asked the head of the department (bob lord) if I could start up a project to do mining on the logs to identify ips that were accessing more than 2-3 accounts, and accounts being logged into by more than one IP
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i came up with a way to identify potential botnets, and I even thought that selling that data to A/V and threat intel companies would be pretty neat and we could claim infosec was actually earning the company a little money! (presuming we thought what we found was shady)
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he acutally said the words "it's a dumb idea". and laughed at me. that sort of interaction was .. routine. and it set the tone for the future. "hey lets try and find botnets and shady shit" "no, you're dumb".
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Of course it was a dumb idea, from the standpoint of their business goals. Twitter being infested with bots that drive up engagement is Twitter working-as-designed.
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