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by Kaveren 2161 days ago
> On 4 October, 2016, Mr Stone tweeted: “Payload coming. #Lockthemup.”

It was clear publicly that Stone had a very inappropriate relationship with Wikileaks. What would you do, attempt to extort Stone for more than $100k and hope he pays? Leak little more than was publicly known?

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No, if you were a bad actor looking to cause chaos for a target, you would gather all such things and release it. Either way, that example disproves your claim that nothing sensitive would be discussed of Twitter DM's.