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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mr Jones<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 01, 2011 6:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] question for twitter hipsters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2011/5/31 spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>></span>So now here is my question for hipsters: assuming someone guessed this guy’s twitter password, does twitter have some means of tracing the actual phone number from which the tweet was tweeted?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>I'm not sure if Twitter keeps track of IP's used to send a particular 'tweet' or not. Most likely they do. <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So in the end...COULD someone go through all this to burn this guy. Yes. Did they? No idea. Would it be very costly/difficult? Not really. My intuition is the guy got busted with his pants down ;) and now he's trying to cover his tracks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again Jones, this has all been most educational. Here’s where I was going with all this. There was a book by Gleick called Faster, which was about how everything is accelerating in the way society does everything, information handling being a prime example. I am a fan of his, but I consider this his weakest book. He missed so many important things, and one of them is found in how quickly information soaks into public awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For those of us who are old enough to remember Richard Nixon, there was the Watergate break-in, the bad guys were caught on 17 June 1972, but it took over two years for the press to tease out all the pertinent facts, publish them on dead trees, resulting in Nixon’s resignation in August 1974, and even then, most of the public was mostly unaware until the summer of 74. Contrast to 3 decades later, fall of 2004 when Dan Rather ran a 60 Minutes spot on George Bush’s service records with counterfeit documents. (The story was true, but the actual evidence was counterfeit, ahem.) It took a couple weeks for CBS to recant and Dan Rather to resign. Now this latest, the photo of a man’s bulging package was sent Friday, the buzz went around the internet over the holiday weekend, and when the regular news staff returned from the holiday, CNN grilled the congressman on Tuesday. The betting is running high if he will resign before the end of the week. So in our lifetimes, we see a process that took over two years, to one that took a couple weeks, to one that may be complete in days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Along with all this are other interesting questions of extrapolating these trends. Consider the magnitude of the crime: Watergate break-in: enormous. Reporting fake documents: big. Politician posting a photo of his penis: tiny. (Ahem, pardon, but the jokes just write themselves in this case.) Trend: smaller infractions by politicians and public figures cause more stir faster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Another interesting note: since we now have quick references to everything a politician said, I noted that nowhere did the politician actually explicitly claim the photo was not his junk. He implied it clearly, but if you look at what he specifically said, it was “FB hacked” which is Facebook. When I read that, I thought he meant his twitter, which made me immediately ask: couldn’t they trace that somehow and figure out the real killers? But he never did explicitly say his twitters were hacked, only FB. So yesterday he had a catastrophic interview with CNN in which he very skillfully and lawyerly made no false statements, but didn’t actually deny anything. He repeatedly referred to his previous statements, which also don’t specifically deny that it is in fact his penis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Stay tuned, this will be a short one. A short *<b>time</b>* I mean, to resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>