Aaron Kofsky, JD Vance’s financial policy adviser, called Vance “a Trump boot licker” and instructed users on how to transport drugs through TSA in the posts. “Coke then opiates is always my go-to,” he wrote.
It’s always just bad opsec like sharing names and emails across social media. Here, the dude linked to his own Instagram account. In the NC governor case, the dude used the same handle attached to the same email everywhere. It may seem obvious to us that this is creating an easily searchable permanent index of a person’s internet history, but lots of people legitimately do not understand how that works, and imagine that some obscure porn forum is relatively private.
Also, we are now in an era where most people actually have a decade or more of history on the internet which can be potentially dug up, so the media is putting more effort into pulling those threads.
It’s always just bad opsec like sharing names and emails across social media. Here, the dude linked to his own Instagram account. In the NC governor case, the dude used the same handle attached to the same email everywhere. It may seem obvious to us that this is creating an easily searchable permanent index of a person’s internet history, but lots of people legitimately do not understand how that works, and imagine that some obscure porn forum is relatively private.
Also, we are now in an era where most people actually have a decade or more of history on the internet which can be potentially dug up, so the media is putting more effort into pulling those threads.