This post may generate a tweet on @matthuag (which the hacked @craigmurrayorg has been renamed) because the autoposting programme interacts differently with Twitter (called a Twitter API).
When my account was hacked yesterday the hacker changed the password, email address, telephone number and username. They quickly tweeted out a post in praise of Hitler in my original username before changing it, which indicates that the primary motivation was defamation. They then subsequently changed the user id to @MattHuag, apparently to create an account stealing the identity of @MattHuang, which seems like a ruse to disguise the motivation.
But here is the rub. Twitter does not let you change the password, email address, phone number and username of an account all at once, for obvious reasons. The email I received from Twitter that alerted me to the hack makes plain that once you change the password, your ability to make some other changes is suspended.
Three people have now tried to replicate making all these changes on a Twitter account and nobody has succeeded (see for example comments below). So it appears that whoever did this hack was within Twitter or has a backdoor into Twitter to overcome these safeguards. That obviously points towards a security service rather than a random hacker. My twitter following had grown to over 136,000 and some individual tweets on Gaza were gaining 10,000 likes.
It is of course the case that all my electronics were confiscated by the state less than a month ago, and while they cloned and returned my laptop, they still have my phone. I was always confident there is nothing criminal on them, so I wonder whether this is just an attempt to bolster some kind of case with an outrageous tweet.
Subject to an “anti-terrorism investigation”, I do not view it as safe currently to return to the UK. Whether the investigation relates to my support for Wikileaks or to my support for Palestine, or to both, I do not know, as the police have not said why I am being investigated.
I honestly believe I am not fighting for me, but against encroaching fascism in Western societies. It is for freedom from an ever-encroaching police state and from a political class trying to enforce a monopoly of information to the public. The fight can only happen at all with financial support from the amazing readers of this blog. You have seen me through so much, and I am very grateful.
"They quickly tweeted out a post in praise of Hitler in my original username before changing it, which indicates that the primary motivation was defamation."
Oh I don't know...after a lifetime of living in the understanding that Nazis where the bad guys, it's plain that my post WW2 generation have been living in a muddle.
Turns out the Nazis were in reality the good guys. No doubt our former understanding was some kind of "Marxist" propaganda.
Certainly, the Canadian Government think so and set out to prove it with its splendid standing ovation for a Nazi SS man...thanking him "for his service",and after all, haven't those Nazi loving Ukrainians with their "ironic" Hitler and Bandera tattoos whom we support not been making a wining case for "Good Nazis" for a while? That whole think about murdering thousands of Poles and Jews is surely a case of historical misinterpretation...something confirmed surely by Netanyahu who informs us that the Nazis were not p that bad really...that it was the dusky Palestinians put them up to it and let's face it, as president of Israel he should know;right?
But if in doubt then we should look to public intellectuals such as Douglas Murray for guidance:
So...there we are. It's clear the Holocaust was merely done under duress for utilitarian reasons under pressure from the Arabs. The Nazis who were otherwise kind lovely European white people should obviously be allowed to be Nazis if they wish as long as they support Israel and we should perhaps hack Craig Murrays site as a favour to him: just to make sure that everyone knows he's really on our side.
-What's the problem? The world has been set to right...