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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by mansion7 »

djmetzle wrote: post #94
amatecha wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost as if web services that let people post whatever they want at any time, vulnerable to whatever security flaws may be present, shouldn't be used as a reliable source for up-to-the-minute information about literally anything important at all.

This. We've entered a world where the lowest common denominator of information is being used as primary source for current events. That's asinine.

That's partially because the sources formally seen as primary, at least in the US, have started to be viewed as biased and unreliable.

This is largely through their own actions. Examples are legion, but a recent one is debacle at NYT over an op-ed. The news-consuming public was able to view the shenanigans of NYT reporters and staffers, which would formerly been done being the scenes.

Many eyes were opened, and I'm certain I wasn't the only one thinking "These are the people in supposed to be trusting for my news and analysis?"

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Post by luhn »

gukov wrote: post #46
luhn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would they gain by doing that?

Social proof. People would see others donating and assume it was indeed legit.

It would make sense to do a handful of transactions for that purpose, but hundreds of transactions totaling over a hundred thousand dollars?

Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by ziddoap »

malwarebytess wrote: post #132
christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case? Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.

Because... Because it's not confirmed?

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Post by wolco »

malwarebytess wrote: post #132
christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case? Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.

Because the person he is doxxing isn't behind this. Unnamed telco source is not credible or is a rectangle swimming pools being used as a fingerprint.

Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by the_svd_doctor »

malwarebytess wrote: post #132
christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case? Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.

Maybe because the person he is pointing to may herself become a target of attacks/harassment other. If he (or she) is really the perpetrator, he should ideally be arrested and convicted. But it may also not be him.

I'm not sure I understand your comment actually.

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Post by pixelbash »

malwarebytess wrote: post #132
christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case? Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.

Because doxxing as a strategy has a nasty habit of ruining the lives of people that turn out to be innocent. Skipping legal process and all that.

Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by wolco »

blisseyGo wrote: post #69

I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was. Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value: Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23... This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies,…

Erased as in moved to other markets only to return a short time later.

Re: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

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Post by rblatz »

KiranRao0 wrote: post #96
blisseyGo wrote: post #69

I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was. Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value: Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23... This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies,…

I wonder if the hacked could have made more if they instead used Musk's Twitter account for something like that while shorting Tesla.

Or used a more believable scam? They took over coinbase’s Twitter. They could have announced some new trading system and to reserve your spot in the line for the beta deposit $100 worth of bitcoin to this address.

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Post by crtasm »

paulpauper wrote: post #30
crtasm wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you don't even need to steal an account. When the Playstation 5 launch event was happening I searched for it on Youtube, clicked the top result and it turned out to be a scammer restreaming the real live event with graphics added saying Sony would double your BTC - just send to this address ___.

that may have been an ad. scammers are buying youtube ads too

Definitely not, adverts are blocked here and I had the stream on for a good 30mins.

edit: the layout/graphics were the same as the screenshot in this article linked downthread: https://cointelegraph.com/news/fake-spacex-youtube-channels-...

Archive of the Sony scam site: https://web.archive.org/web/20200612034440/http://ps-btc.inf...

Compare that to the one linked by the compromised Twitter accounts: https://web.archive.org/web/20200715192340/http://cryptoforh...

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Post by zymhan »

malwarebytess wrote: post #132
christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

It's doxxing. My question is why is that a bad thing in this case? Zero tolerance policies don't make any sense to me.

Do you also support vigilante justice?
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