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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Vanto on July 17, 2020, 06:53:00 pm

Title: Massive Twitter hack
Post by: Vanto on July 17, 2020, 06:53:00 pm

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-hack-could-have-been-much-worse/ (https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-hack-could-have-been-much-worse/)

This was probably "just" a Bitcoin scam, but the fact that it was even possible is troubling, to say the least.

Title: Re: Massive Twitter hack
Post by: niam2023 on July 17, 2020, 07:40:20 pm

The kinds of people who actually own Bitcoin at all honestly deserve to sleep in the bed they made if they fall for scams like this.

But the security implications are troubling, if slightly laughable that someone did all this work and only went and tried to make a Bitcoin Scam.

Title: Re: Massive Twitter hack
Post by: RavynousHunter on July 18, 2020, 01:12:39 pm

Yeah, why do that when they can spread lies and misinformation en masse (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/01/misinformation-about-extent-unrest-washington-dc-surges-across-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR3mfilvy0BtAPOVOAYO9HQEu6hAyALBQKvxvm874le9dVAkQHX-9RH0ML8) in a feeble attempt to control the narrative and erase facts?