Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
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#22what's more likely, someone hacks your domain name / DNS gaining control of your MX records or someone hacks your username @gmail.com?
Hacking (via social engineering) your GoDaddy account would be easier, IMO. And that looks like what's happened here?
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#24I feel bad for this guy, and twitter needs to do the right thing and return to him his handle.
Then I can come back here and post nasty comments about squatters.
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#25Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
Ya, the fact that he tweeted a grand total of twice in 2013 (see https://twitter.com/N_is_stolen) makes me have a little less sympathy.
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poopsintub
Twitter added two-factor authentication back in May. If you're constantly being attacked that you ignore important emails, at least add phone authentication.
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You might want to read the post before you comment. He willingly gave the twitter to the hacker.
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Doesn't help if you're being blackmailed, as you have access to both factors.
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#28Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.
I've heard really good things with gandi and hover. I myself use namecheap, cause well, it's decent service for its price.
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poopsintub Twitter added two-factor authentication back in May. If you're constantly being attacked that you ignore important emails, at least add phone authentication. - You might want to read the post before you comment. He willingly gave the twitter to the hacker.
GoDaddy added two-factor authentication in December...Twitter almost a year ago, Facebook in 2011. Like I said, if he was under attack frequently that he just ignored security emails, you think turning on two-factor authentication would have been a pretty good idea on any one of those. He did none and wants to grab attention about a $50k twitter handle. This is what happens when you run with scissors.
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#30I believe that it is ISO 9001 (quality assurance) that states that a company must be able to audit any stored data and data changes dating back some time. Judging by Paypal (specially for being a financial company), Twitter (for being an open capital company), and GoDaddy's size they may all comply to ISO 9001, but I'm just guessing.
Anyhow, if any of them actually comply to ISO 9001, it is possible to audit previous data to establish the true identity of the owner in some arbitrary date before any of this happened.
Quite possibly, to avoid unnecessary user annoyance, these companies will only subject themselves to the effort of analyzing that data under court order, so it's fair to suppose there is need to open a judicial process. Therefore, I believe it's possible to regain access to everything that was supposedly stolen, even though it may take quite some time.