Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

Post by DabbyDabberson » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

janmo wrote: post #509

DabbyDabberson wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you're someone whose regularly traded 10s of thousands of certain stocks over the last few years, it would be nearly impossible for them to detect a $100k profit from stock manipulation. especially a high volume stock like TSLA

Especially that Tesla is shorted so much. That said, shorting even with leverage requires you to have some money to invest. If you are 17 you are most likely broke.

But the fact that _I_, could have made a higher return still holds. If I was 17 and broke, yeah the whole stock manipulation thing wouldn't be my first choice.

Post by JetSpiegel » Thu, Aug 06, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

nickff wrote: post #183

slg wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The age of the attacker is irrelevant to Twitter's role in this story. However your underlying point still stands. If we want these types of attacks to stop, we can't just let all these companies off with a public embarrassment being the primary punishment. At a certain point we have to start calling it negligence when companies fall for these attacks and fail to have proper precautions in place to prevent them.

From memory, I recall the FBI did a study, and found that half of their employees would plug in a USB drive that they found on the ground in the parking lot. After training, that number was reduced to a quarter. If a security-focused government police agency is so vulnerable, it is unreasonable to expect perfection from a (less paranoid) company.

> half of their employees would plug in a USB drive that they found on the ground in the parking lot

If that didn't work, StuxNet wouldn't have gone anywhere either.

Sometimes the right hand requires the left hand to fuck up.

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