On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Tyler Durden
Possibly this answers it. But it would require being able to send that RSS feed into the TOR cloud, which I will admit to not knowing if such is possible with minimal ScriptFu.
Basically, what I'm wondering is, if someone gets ahold of a twitter distribution list, is it possible to create enough of a cloud so as to remove the possibility of authorities coming to visit the subscriber?
I think this is trivially possible with, well, just the twitter rss feeds. But, with yahoo pipes you make *them* follow the rss feeds, and you watch the output of that. In that way, you aren't directly linked to them, yahoo is, and they'd need to follow the pipe and see who owns it/visits it. But if you make it public, it's visitable by anyone. And I don't think yahoo requires any personal info. Of course, the idea with the pipes is that you could forward the data around a bit, munge it, mix it in with some other services, perhaps encrypt or what-not. But I've not gone to town on what is available with them. Are you thinking specifically about the request for info on Wikileaks followers? If you just follow the public RSS of that twitter account (assuming it is public) surely they don't have any info on you, because you haven't had to join twitter to do that. I must admit, I don't have much of an idea of how twitter handles that stuff, as I haven't used it for a few years.
-TD
-- silky