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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Wed Dec 5, 2018, 07:53 AM Dec 2018

Giuliani fucks up tweet. Hilarity ensues. Now he claims, he was hacked.

Rudy Giuliani sent a tweet with what ACCIDENTLY turned out to be a usable website-URL. Except that it pointed nowhere, because a website of this name didn't exist.

Then, the same day, somebody grabbed that domain and set up a website bashing Trump.

So NOW Rudy's tweet accidently links to an existing website that was designed to match the URL he accidently tweeted in the first place.

Now, Rudy claims that his tweet was hacked.

Link to tweet

FUN FACT:
Rudy Giuliani is a cybersecurity advisor of the Trump administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/12/trump-names-rudy-giuliani-as-cybersecurity-adviser/?utm_term=.bbcc23bbb171

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Giuliani fucks up tweet. Hilarity ensues. Now he claims, he was hacked. (Original Post) DetlefK Dec 2018 OP

.in is a valid internet domain. .Either is not. Renew Deal Dec 2018 #1

You have an odd definition of fun Ms. Toad Dec 2018 #2

Terrifying indeed... nt ecstatic Dec 2018 #3

So Time Magazine hacked Rudy's twitter feed and posted something under his name? Botany Dec 2018 #4

Twitter allows people to hack Trump's account all the time dalton99a Dec 2018 #7

Who knew that Time Magazine is part of the "deep state?" Botany Dec 2018 #8

Card Carrying Anti-Trumpers ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #5

He's a fool, and he's not wrong zaj Dec 2018 #6

No he wasn't. n/t demmiblue Dec 2018 #9

He was... It's called clickjacking zaj Dec 2018 #10

no when you are a sloppy typer and don't space you create links all the damn time dembotoz Dec 2018 #11

No. demmiblue Dec 2018 #12

Yes, it's an ex post facto clickjack zaj Dec 2018 #13

That's not a "hack" in any sense that the word's being used by Giuliani. Denzil_DC Dec 2018 #18

We agree... zaj Dec 2018 #20

I think we do. I certainly don't think it's worthwhile our arguing about terminology. Denzil_DC Dec 2018 #21

Stupid Rudy lpbk2713 Dec 2018 #14

And Trump put this guy in charge of cybersecurity! Initech Dec 2018 #15

You just saved me having to chime in and point out the same! n/t Denzil_DC Dec 2018 #16

You really can't make this shit up! Initech Dec 2018 #17

Well, I dunno. I find it perversely comforting in some weird way! n/t Denzil_DC Dec 2018 #19

Renew Deal

(81,869 posts)

1. .in is a valid internet domain. .Either is not.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 09:01 AM

Dec 2018

But good thought grandpa.

Sure seems like Giuliani is publicly circling the drain.

Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)

2. You have an odd definition of fun

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 09:30 AM

Dec 2018

Terrifying is more like it.

ecstatic

(32,727 posts)

3. Terrifying indeed... nt

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 09:46 AM

Dec 2018

Botany

(70,559 posts)

4. So Time Magazine hacked Rudy's twitter feed and posted something under his name?

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:02 AM

Dec 2018

Makes sense to me.

dalton99a

(81,566 posts)

7. Twitter allows people to hack Trump's account all the time

Reply to Botany (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:04 AM

Dec 2018

Botany

(70,559 posts)

8. Who knew that Time Magazine is part of the "deep state?"

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:14 AM

Dec 2018

n/t

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)

5. Card Carrying Anti-Trumpers

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:04 AM

Dec 2018

If Rudy sends me a card that says that, i'd be happy to carry it.

zaj

(3,433 posts)

6. He's a fool, and he's not wrong

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:04 AM

Dec 2018

He was hacked.

He could just delete and repost the tweet instead of showing that he's a fool, but thankfulky we are dealing with Clown Shoe Dictators.

demmiblue

(36,875 posts)

9. No he wasn't. n/t

Reply to zaj (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:15 AM

Dec 2018

zaj

(3,433 posts)

10. He was... It's called clickjacking

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:21 AM

Dec 2018

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking

dembotoz

(16,825 posts)

11. no when you are a sloppy typer and don't space you create links all the damn time

Reply to zaj (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:26 AM

Dec 2018

in word the phrase is blue to show link possible
trudy does not understand this or does not care.

demmiblue

(36,875 posts)

12. No.

Reply to zaj (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 10:33 AM

Dec 2018

Link to tweet

zaj

(3,433 posts)

13. Yes, it's an ex post facto clickjack

Reply to zaj (Reply #10)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 11:32 AM

Dec 2018

Domain squatters do it. Pickup an expired link or repurpose a link typo. It's a hack.

In this case they hacked his tweet.

It's not the hack Rudy trys to suggest. Hes accidentally right that it's a hack.

Denzil_DC

(7,254 posts)

18. That's not a "hack" in any sense that the word's being used by Giuliani.

Reply to zaj (Reply #13)

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 11:59 AM

Dec 2018

If you read Giuliani's rantings, he's banging on about Twitter allowing "someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message." He even objects because it didn't happen to a later typo of his - "The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen" - so he obviously has no idea what or how it was done.

He's accusing Twitter of deliberately intervening in the first case. Twitter didn't "allow" anything. As most of us who aren't Trump's cybersecurity adviser will understand, if a message presents what Twitter's software interprets as a valid URL, it'll make it clickable - completely automated.

I guess they could re-program their back end to make exceptions for future Guiliani sloppiness, but I can't see it happening.