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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.
The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells "Alien Invasion" broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.
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I am used to spotting cryptocurrency scams. The tweet I saw was from his official account, days before the "Wednesday hack".
I don't think that's been reported anywhere, could you link to an archive or something?
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.
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,…
Yes it was dangerous, but nothing is “erased” if that market valuation is restored a few minutes later
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,…
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.
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You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to "un-wash" your own bitcoins this way.
Possibly. The only reason this would be stupid is because Bitcoin has rapidly been centralizing. I suspect many exchanges might start blacklisting any wallet that has any transactions from this wallet. On the other hand, they can’t really do that. At that point the attackers would be able to poison any wallet just by sending a small amount of BTC to it. Therefore it seems like the only penalty is that they’d have to…
But I don't know nearly enough crypto to even guess at whether or not this is a really stupid idea. Don't torch me for being foolish.
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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.
The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells "Alien Invasion" broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.
Yes, except the FCC can forcefully suspend the operations of a radio station.
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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.
The same could be said for radio, whether Orson Wells "Alien Invasion" broadcast or the multitude of April 1st jokes that got out of hand.
>"The supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast. ... Radio had siphoned off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. So the papers seized the opportunity presented by Welles’ program to discredit radio as a source of news. The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted."
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"Welles later embraced the story as part of his personal myth. "Houses were emptying, churches were filling up; from Nashville to Minneapolis there was wailing in the streets and the rending of garments," he told Peter Bogdanovich years later."
"CBS, too, found reports ultimately useful in promoting the strength of its influence. radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted."
I thought it was very well-known that Lucky225 made that story up as a cover to hide the fact that he gained control of Adrian Lamo’s @6 Twitter via a SIM swap hack himself, and also took control of Lamo’s Facebook in order to hijack ownership of the 2600 Magazine group on Facebook.
man who falls for this stuff. i've been seeing "send me money to this account to get double that" scam for like 20 years, its hard to believe there are people who still don't know better.
I too don't understand who's technical enough to know what BitCoin is but not technical enough to understand the scam. I think some people are possibly just sending the scammers some money for the banter? A sign of respect for the hack.