[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

[Michael Klontzas]

Emma,

This may not be the case with other tools, but Debirtify only gets read 
access to information that is already publicly available plus any 
private lists. This is confirmed by Twitter on the login/authorisation 
page. Debirtify can't read DMs either. 'Why do you need me to connect to 
my Twitter account?' on their website explains why they need us to log 
in instead of doing what Fritter for Android [1] does.

[1] Fritter can figure out who you follow and show you your tweets 
stream without you having to log in to Twitter or anything else.

Best,
Michael

On 10/11/2022 14:41, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L wrote:
> Thank you so much Robert! It's good to have this clarity over the role the
> admins play, I really had no idea how this worked. I hope they are able to
> advance the encryption for DMs at some point. My main concern was these
> 'migration from Twitter' websites. Where I can certainly see their reasons
> for needing us to log in with our Twitter accounts it seems quite
> potentially possible that having this access, could compromise DMs. Having
> had experience of being impacted by a recent hostile cyber attack I think I
> will personally choose not to put my Twitter credentials into a website
> whose developers I don't know a great deal about. Call me paranoid but I
> just haven't seen enough that's reassuring about this.
> Emma