Using Python, Django, and ruthlessness to protect people from social media harassment.

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A small Django web app called secateur integrates with the Twitter API using OAuth and Python to block harassers and their followers temporarily (options like 6/12/30 weeks), paginating ~5,000 followers per page and spawning thousands of Celery tasks while sleeping for rate limits. OAuth tokens are stored readable for API use (a noted risk), the UI is minimal but functional, the code is open source, and the system works though scaling, security and UX need hardening.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:04Tom Eastman
3. 2:45Block or Mute Users
4. 11:21User Interfaces
5. 13:01Threat Modeling
6. 16:03Oauth Credentials
7. 17:58Global Variables

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