Oh, this is great. And the Security alert image he posted shows “privaterelay.appleid.com”. Private relay is a service from Apple the lets app users sign up with an anonymous email. My guess is a fake account was created with an anonymous email, then a VPN was used to temporarily switch the IP address and trigger the security alert.
Ooh I’m feeling very privileged! I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder in regard to authoritarian religious types, always happy to do some digital sleuthing for the greater good!
That's my field and I missed that - usually I catch those kinds of things. Bonus points to Griffindor (or whatever house you prefer). I noted in another comment that the account in question says at Twitter (because I still call it that) that it was created back in May 2023 and seems to have sat dormant, so it wasn't just created for this situation. That naming convention is the default naming model for a new account there, using your name and some numbers on the end, so it does look like a style of throwaway account.
Agreed. Though the suspicious device login info on the photo gives us a small clue, "10.28.0 on iPhone", this version of Twitter was released Feb 12, 2024, so we at least know the login happened on or after that date.
As a security professional, there is no greater feeling of joy than getting to a topic late and finding that everyone involved already identified and called out it was BS. Good work! 👍
Also sorry if I’m revealing my rusty skills at acquiring porn but, who goes to Twitter for porn? Wouldn’t those be, uh, rather abbreviated porn events?
I'm guessing it's where one goes for porn if they're worried about their list of visited websites being seen by someone. Nobody's going to think twice about a guy with a twitter account visiting twitter. But a lot of people are going to side-eye the guy who presents himself as an upstanding moral example visiting porn sites.
If anyone is worried about their search history showing up for whatever reason, or just want greater privacy online, then I would recommend using DuckDuckGo, both the mobile app and website.
It is a search engine that has built-in privacy protections, including no recorded search history. The mobile app even has a 🔥 icon right at the bottom you can hit any time to remove the temp session data.
Whenever I’m researching a grey-area subject for work or investigating a sketchy website, I do it in DDG so there’s no chance anything in my browser is getting passed along and nothing from the website is staying behind.
ahhhhh I can see the logic there. what a tangled web, eh? must be hard work to pretend to be something that you are not. I almost feel lucky that I'm too lazy to contemplate it!
That is what perplexes me. That being said a guy I went to school with regularly tweets at porn stars and comments on photos. On his public profile at like 10am on a Tuesday. So embarrassing.
Nope! SW here with lots of 🦐🌟 friends - you can post uncensored porn on Twitter. It is the one and only major platform you can advertise Only Fans and other porn sites openly. He's just being cheap, looking for free 🦐 - I can guarantee he won't be interested in actually paying anyone for the work they do.
Actually this is a good test, I wonder if anything will happen if I write the words Only Fans here in Substack comments...
I'm not sure why they want them on Twitter, but established Facebook accounts are a goldmine for scammers because they can use them to avoid being pinged as a new account & being blocked from posting to most groups & pages.
ah, "covfefe" was great because it allowed me to picture a Trump aide knocking the phone out of his hand mid-tweet -- somehow, things have only gotten increasingly batshit since then lol :'-)
What's wonderful about that one is that you can imagine whatever you like, and since there's never been a clear explanation then you get to just assume you;re 100% correct. :)
I know he’s an asshole, but this is so fucking hilarious to me. This was almost literally what I typed into google when I was about 9 on the family computer in secret when I was trying to work out being gay.
Loved the blow by blow way you wrote this David. Sunlight on a contorted lie is such great disinfectant. My favourite lol paragraph was this: “If you want to use the “I was hacked” excuse, I suggest waiting longer than 16 minutes. When your Twitter account is hacked, you don’t get it back in 16 minutes. I’d estimate two days minimum, but more likely two to six months. Plus the excuse doesn’t hit as hard when you imagine what a hacker would actually do if they seized control of Brian’s Twitter. I am guessing a solo tweet of “Ladies and girls kissing” — swiftly deleted — would not be it.”
The level of power this man has over his church etc informing his decision making is next level, only someone who has a flock of sheep blindly following is going to believe "I think my Twitter may have been hacked" would smooth things over.... because he spins bs to them all the time, conformation bias.
It takes me back to being in a very similar church that was high control, we worked on a system where we'd be in someone's "12" like Jesus and his 12.....whoevers 12 you were in meant you were in a covenant relationship with them, similar to marriage and you had to tell them EVERYTHING (dissimilar to marraige) Once I shared I'd had a glass of wine on a Saturday night and was taken off children's church!! And I truly believed I wouldn't be safe for the children because I'd opened the door to the devil in my life.....
I guess my point is that he's so used to spouting bs and people's whole heartedly believing him that this chain of events isn't surprising. I feel a lot of joy about this present we've been given.
Hisway church Auckland....it went up in flames a few years ago after the pastor royally shat on everyone by having an affair with the youth pastors wife.....This is a couple of years after I left/wasn't allowed back due to meeting a boyfriend outside of church (the oppression and control was so intense that I lived a double life the last few months of my time there which Is how I meet my bf) I was harrased and bullied re sexual sin and the demons I'd be letting into my child's life mainly the "spirit of pedophilia" (I was a young mum!) It was horrific......Rob DeLuca just moved onto other countries and is still out there spouting his bs......phew okay that opened a can of worms 😅
It’s high time that religious minded people admit that they are just as into human desires and sexual fantasies as anyone else. Not condoning the “girls” part of the tweet at all. If he really was searching for underage girls, gross. I mean I’m 43 and I get called a girl all the time, so maybe it’s also time we stop referring to grown ass women as girls?
It’s a subject of debate in our house all the time. I tell my husband, men would never refer to a grown man as that boy over there. Now that I’ve pointed it out to him he catches it a lot in movies and tv shows and he says yeah that is weird.
I live in NZ and my mum who's 74 years old always refers to women, generally under 70 as "girls" it really annoys me and makes conversation confusing. (A girl is going to her husband's funeral? Huh?)
Maybe we can now have an annual “Ladies and girls kissing” day similar to Ed Balls day (Google it if you haven’t heard of it, it’s hilarious and much less creepy)
He would never admit that given the scandals they’ve had with Carl Lentz and Brian’s dad after that documentary came out. These creeps are everywhere in these mega churches. They think they’re untouchable until they can’t deny the evidence any longer and end up tucking tail and running away.
It’s funny how they fired Carl over his infidelity but Hillsong didn’t do anything with Brian. I’ve seen churches kick out their founders and leaders for bad behavior. Jeremy Foster left after cheating on his wife. James MacDonald was threatening his staff and made death threats and got the boot. Jerry Falwell Jr. was forced to resign after photos of him and a woman appeared online. But Brian has avoided any punishment which goes to show you the control he has over his cult. It’s insane.
Oh, this is great. And the Security alert image he posted shows “privaterelay.appleid.com”. Private relay is a service from Apple the lets app users sign up with an anonymous email. My guess is a fake account was created with an anonymous email, then a VPN was used to temporarily switch the IP address and trigger the security alert.
Oh, you're a good one. You can stay. Pinning this.
Ooh I’m feeling very privileged! I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder in regard to authoritarian religious types, always happy to do some digital sleuthing for the greater good!
I am pretending to understand that. I am pleased that there are people like you who do!
That's my field and I missed that - usually I catch those kinds of things. Bonus points to Griffindor (or whatever house you prefer). I noted in another comment that the account in question says at Twitter (because I still call it that) that it was created back in May 2023 and seems to have sat dormant, so it wasn't just created for this situation. That naming convention is the default naming model for a new account there, using your name and some numbers on the end, so it does look like a style of throwaway account.
Woo, thanks, I'll take them for Gryffindor! And not sketchy at all to have an anonymous, throwaway twitter account...
Very telling that they didn't include the timestamp
Agreed. Though the suspicious device login info on the photo gives us a small clue, "10.28.0 on iPhone", this version of Twitter was released Feb 12, 2024, so we at least know the login happened on or after that date.
As a security professional, there is no greater feeling of joy than getting to a topic late and finding that everyone involved already identified and called out it was BS. Good work! 👍
this is brilliant!
Also sorry if I’m revealing my rusty skills at acquiring porn but, who goes to Twitter for porn? Wouldn’t those be, uh, rather abbreviated porn events?
I'm guessing it's where one goes for porn if they're worried about their list of visited websites being seen by someone. Nobody's going to think twice about a guy with a twitter account visiting twitter. But a lot of people are going to side-eye the guy who presents himself as an upstanding moral example visiting porn sites.
If anyone is worried about their search history showing up for whatever reason, or just want greater privacy online, then I would recommend using DuckDuckGo, both the mobile app and website.
It is a search engine that has built-in privacy protections, including no recorded search history. The mobile app even has a 🔥 icon right at the bottom you can hit any time to remove the temp session data.
Whenever I’m researching a grey-area subject for work or investigating a sketchy website, I do it in DDG so there’s no chance anything in my browser is getting passed along and nothing from the website is staying behind.
Some good advice for Ps Brian!
ahhhhh I can see the logic there. what a tangled web, eh? must be hard work to pretend to be something that you are not. I almost feel lucky that I'm too lazy to contemplate it!
That is what perplexes me. That being said a guy I went to school with regularly tweets at porn stars and comments on photos. On his public profile at like 10am on a Tuesday. So embarrassing.
Also, he's a 70 year old man, possibly under the influence - he probably thought Twitter was a good place to go. Or - he thought he as on Google.
Oh and also there is a LOT of porn on Twitter!
Nope! SW here with lots of 🦐🌟 friends - you can post uncensored porn on Twitter. It is the one and only major platform you can advertise Only Fans and other porn sites openly. He's just being cheap, looking for free 🦐 - I can guarantee he won't be interested in actually paying anyone for the work they do.
Actually this is a good test, I wonder if anything will happen if I write the words Only Fans here in Substack comments...
Ohhhh yes, I misread - definitely abbreviated! 🤣
👑
Isn’t this tweet one of the greatest gifts you’ve ever received?
I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s near perfect.
*chefs kiss*
Like a gift from God lol
😂 so good
delicious to watch. forgive my voyeurism!
I can hardly think of a better way to show you're both old AND horny.
ladies showing ankle
ladies bare shoulders
My Instagram was hacked once. I don't know why they wanted my 40 follower account which primarily contains pictures of my cats, but they wanted it.
It’s like Victorian era porn.
I follow the Kinky History lady on Instagram. She's hilarious. Anyway, those Victorians were FILTHY!
I'm not sure why they want them on Twitter, but established Facebook accounts are a goldmine for scammers because they can use them to avoid being pinged as a new account & being blocked from posting to most groups & pages.
"I wish there was a world where Brian Houston would value truth over the fact that some nights, at 11.57pm, he just wants to have a wank."
OMFG yes! Fantastic summary.
I was on a Q&A panel last night for Pride, talking about sex and drugs. We discussed how shame and repression are so destructive...
Everyone whacks it. Brian just hacks it.
🤣🤣🤣
🤣
This is one of the best sentences I have ever read
Is there somewhere I could watch/ listen to the panel? It sounds interesting
Sadly no, it wasn't recorded.
But we did agree that we had an awesome lineup and should do a podcast
I like it when panel discussion go well, and lead to other things like podcasts! This is good. Perfect lil' tester.
Covfefe!
ah, "covfefe" was great because it allowed me to picture a Trump aide knocking the phone out of his hand mid-tweet -- somehow, things have only gotten increasingly batshit since then lol :'-)
What's wonderful about that one is that you can imagine whatever you like, and since there's never been a clear explanation then you get to just assume you;re 100% correct. :)
Covfefe is the name for coffee in our our house. Naturally 🤷♀️
I know he’s an asshole, but this is so fucking hilarious to me. This was almost literally what I typed into google when I was about 9 on the family computer in secret when I was trying to work out being gay.
YEP
Loved the blow by blow way you wrote this David. Sunlight on a contorted lie is such great disinfectant. My favourite lol paragraph was this: “If you want to use the “I was hacked” excuse, I suggest waiting longer than 16 minutes. When your Twitter account is hacked, you don’t get it back in 16 minutes. I’d estimate two days minimum, but more likely two to six months. Plus the excuse doesn’t hit as hard when you imagine what a hacker would actually do if they seized control of Brian’s Twitter. I am guessing a solo tweet of “Ladies and girls kissing” — swiftly deleted — would not be it.”
haha the rebrand to X really confused him
He thought it was XXX Videos and realized quickly he was wrong.
Underrated comment :-)
🤣🙌
The level of power this man has over his church etc informing his decision making is next level, only someone who has a flock of sheep blindly following is going to believe "I think my Twitter may have been hacked" would smooth things over.... because he spins bs to them all the time, conformation bias.
It takes me back to being in a very similar church that was high control, we worked on a system where we'd be in someone's "12" like Jesus and his 12.....whoevers 12 you were in meant you were in a covenant relationship with them, similar to marriage and you had to tell them EVERYTHING (dissimilar to marraige) Once I shared I'd had a glass of wine on a Saturday night and was taken off children's church!! And I truly believed I wouldn't be safe for the children because I'd opened the door to the devil in my life.....
I guess my point is that he's so used to spouting bs and people's whole heartedly believing him that this chain of events isn't surprising. I feel a lot of joy about this present we've been given.
I think he will be a very stressful/weird place right now, being kicked out of Hillsong etc. Very little surprise he needed some release!
That's a really good point! He didn't consider that literally no one would believe him 🤣Males it even more delicious
That's a really high control environment. Which church was this if you feel comfortable saying?
Hisway church Auckland....it went up in flames a few years ago after the pastor royally shat on everyone by having an affair with the youth pastors wife.....This is a couple of years after I left/wasn't allowed back due to meeting a boyfriend outside of church (the oppression and control was so intense that I lived a double life the last few months of my time there which Is how I meet my bf) I was harrased and bullied re sexual sin and the demons I'd be letting into my child's life mainly the "spirit of pedophilia" (I was a young mum!) It was horrific......Rob DeLuca just moved onto other countries and is still out there spouting his bs......phew okay that opened a can of worms 😅
It’s high time that religious minded people admit that they are just as into human desires and sexual fantasies as anyone else. Not condoning the “girls” part of the tweet at all. If he really was searching for underage girls, gross. I mean I’m 43 and I get called a girl all the time, so maybe it’s also time we stop referring to grown ass women as girls?
I didn't even clock the potential pedo factor because adult women are so frequently called "girls", especially in highly patriarchal cultures
It was the use of both ladies and girls that set off the paedo radar for me. It implies a significant age difference.
It's not great - especially when you have the weight of what his father did hanging over it all.
It’s a subject of debate in our house all the time. I tell my husband, men would never refer to a grown man as that boy over there. Now that I’ve pointed it out to him he catches it a lot in movies and tv shows and he says yeah that is weird.
I live in NZ and my mum who's 74 years old always refers to women, generally under 70 as "girls" it really annoys me and makes conversation confusing. (A girl is going to her husband's funeral? Huh?)
Whenever my sister and I referred to ourselves as girls mum would say: "You're not girls, you're young ladies" 😂
My grandma always refers to anyone younger than her as a girl.
It's quite disorienting when you're having a conversation with her and she's talking about a nice "girl" who gave her a lift to her exercise classes.
It's only later on in the conversation you find out the "girl" has grandchildren and is in her 70s.
Maybe we can now have an annual “Ladies and girls kissing” day similar to Ed Balls day (Google it if you haven’t heard of it, it’s hilarious and much less creepy)
It would make a good t-shirt...
Nothing more satisfying that an arsehole self owning haha GOLD :)
Poor Yolanda, woken up at midnight to “Yolanda! Kissing girls! ladies! Twitter! I need a press release! I was hacked!”
Let me google that for you
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=ladies+and+girls+kissing 😂😂
Resources for finding out about yourself. And kissing advice
He would never admit that given the scandals they’ve had with Carl Lentz and Brian’s dad after that documentary came out. These creeps are everywhere in these mega churches. They think they’re untouchable until they can’t deny the evidence any longer and end up tucking tail and running away.
It’s funny how they fired Carl over his infidelity but Hillsong didn’t do anything with Brian. I’ve seen churches kick out their founders and leaders for bad behavior. Jeremy Foster left after cheating on his wife. James MacDonald was threatening his staff and made death threats and got the boot. Jerry Falwell Jr. was forced to resign after photos of him and a woman appeared online. But Brian has avoided any punishment which goes to show you the control he has over his cult. It’s insane.
What’s the doco called?
The Secrets of Hillsong. It’s on Netflix.
Horny pastor clowned by journalist
perfect but it’s missing all the superlatives: “horny pastor gets clowned HARD by STRONG SMART journalist!”