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Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

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Re: Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

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Post by _jjkk »

nightcracker wrote: post #120
pojntfx wrote: post #99

"Our European visitors are important to us. 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." nice

Why do all these prompts use doublespeak so blatantly? It's actually insane. "Your privacy matters to us." -> Then why are you asking me to give it up? If my privacy mattered to you you wouldn't even ask to install tracking cookies and gather my data.

It's not doublespeak. What would you have the message say?

It's a legacy site and they haven't finished implementing out-out-only / data-deletion / etc... I wouldn't assume malicious intent.

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Post by anoa_ »

superkuh wrote: post #159
ceejayoz wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It means they're tracking US visitors in ways intrusive enough to be illegal in Europe, yes.

Only if you enable javascript. This is exactly equivalent to opening every email attachment you receive. It's absurd this is considered the norm. You can take individual responsibility and disable JS by default. Also, don't visit sites that you disagree with. This is much more ethical than the European choice to bring in people with guns to coerce sites into behaving how they want. It's easy to understand why interna…

I would say it's equivalent to opening all email attachments in a VM, as there is a sandbox these things run in. That's security-wise though.

Privacy-wise there's certainly more fingerprintable data available to the program than what you would get in a typical VM.

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Post by giomasce »

georgiecasey wrote: post #116
kube-system wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[cost of compliance] > [revenue from EU visitors]

And I don't blame the site at all. Another stupid rule from the EU preventing me from reading articles.

The rule is not preventing anything. The website is redirecting your requests on a static page.

Re: Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

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Post by tedunangst »

Taek wrote: post #131

Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me. Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world? If a 17yo could do it, I'm sure a nation state could do it.

Previous settlement regarding twitter security: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/03/ftc-a...

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Post by wil421 »

ponker wrote: post #137
Taek wrote: post #131

Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me. Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world? If a 17yo could do it, I'm sure a nation state could do it.

What does the 17yo have to do with it? Would it be different for an 18yo?

I believe most states will charge a 17yo as and adult. Not sure what the feds would do.

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Post by function_seven »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #130
koolba wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they were dumb enough to waste such a high value target on a small scale bitcoin scam then I wouldn’t be surprised if they were dumb enough to perform the malicious actions from their home IP address.

Didn’t the hack need internal access? VPN maybe?

Sure, but if they connected to the VPN from their own IP, then that's not going to hide anything.

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Post by Pfhreak »

asutekku wrote: post #125

The third person has been identified in an Ars Technica article [1]. 1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/florida-teen-arr...

We protect juveniles for a reason. It seems reasonable to make an effort not to spread their identities around on social media (even if they are reported by press sites.)

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Post by vsareto »

Taek wrote: post #131

Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me. Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world? If a 17yo could do it, I'm sure a nation state could do it.

> Hitting a 17yo with 30 felony charges feels a bit steep to me.

Someone's gonna talk if they haven't already?

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