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But Biden's account wasn't? Quite peculiar considering the upcoming election.
Trumps account got attacked by an employee in the past, presumably it got a special case added then, but they didn't get to an overall policy on heads of state and candidates.
This is all I can see on this page : This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws. It should not be this complicated to respect laws that just enforce minimal good practices. A replacement link should be found for this story. Wfla dot com is clearly shit.
I actually think this kid has a bright future. My prediction: 1 year jail time, 5-10years probation. Will get hired as a security consultant.
I wouldn't hire him. It's not like he _programmed_ his way in. And he didn't just post tweets saying "Twitter's security is bad." He actively tried to scam people. So he wasn't trying to accomplish anything good.
If this turns out to be true, then we can conclude two things: 1. It's incredible that the security of Twitter allows for a solitary 17-year old to gain full access to (any) account. 2. This also explains why the profit of the hack was 'only' ~$100k. Many speculated about how incredibly valuable such a hack could be and how much more a group could have profited from this hack. Using it for two hours of bitcoin scammi…
Probably could have earned a lot more from his exploits if he went the formal route and directly confronted Twitter. But then who even knows if Twitter are a good 'first responder' when it comes to high-profile exploits of their system. There was a recent post about some researcher who exposed flaws in Tor's architecture (which allowed third parties to detect Tor traffic easily) and Tor's staff didn't respond; so she…
does hackerone cover social engineering exploits? I doubt it.
The following issues are outside the scope of our vulnerability rewards program (either ineligible or false positives):
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- Social engineering of Twitter staff or contractors
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Pretty standard for most if not all of the program rules I have come across.
It will be interesting to learn more as the case proceeds. Was he not using tor? I'm actually not super surprised that they've arrested a teenager. Considering the thoroughness of the hack, just using it to scam a few bitcoins seemed a bit blasé. Imagine the shitshow he could've started by tweeting as Trump
Trump is a "protected" account in twitters internal system. Even Twitter employees cant access such protected accounts.
If Musk didn't get elevated privileges, then who else besides Trump would have them? Or are the protections for Trump just the same emergency bespoke fix that they implemented when his account was previously deleted?
This is all I can see on this page : This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws. It should not be this complicated to respect laws that just enforce minimal good practices. A replacement link should be found for this story. Wfla dot com is clearly shit.
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Man = kid. He's only 17. I'm not a lawyer, but I thought it was illegal to put the names of minors in public for committing crimes.
the verge is reporting that he's being tried as an adult, so maybe that's the reasoning. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arr... >He’s being charged as an adult, and the press conference made clear that law enforcement is considering how bad consequences of the hack could have been — not just the $100,000-plus in bitcoin that the teen is alleged to have scammed out of unsuspecting Twitter user…
This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."
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Florida has some of the most permissive laws about mugshots and criminal info. The reason for the "Florida Man" meme is not that people in Florida are more weird than anywhere else, just that it's easier to find the mugshots online.
The story below the linked one is how a man rammed his way into a gated community, beat two people to death with a baseball bath, and then the police found the suspect unconscious after he drank some bleach. That seems more weird than my local news, by a bit.