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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this Twitter hack a dry run before the election in the Fall?
You know get a sense of Twitter's security measures and counter measures to prepare for future hacks?
Please tell me that I being a paranoid, conspiracy theorist. Please tell me that I am crazy. That I should calm down and relax.
Background:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html
Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)US is losing.
Trump is colluding.
triron
(22,023 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)When you just scared the shit out of a thousand of us who hadn't already considered that very tenable possibility?
FM123
(10,054 posts)so when that psycho Matt Gaetz was yelling that big tech was going to steal the election away from trump, I did raise an eyebrow....
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)to scam people out of money.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)What about other levels? Instead of tweets from famous people asking for bitcoin money, what about tweets from regular people spreading false information about Biden.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)to spread false information on twitter? Just open up a twitter account.
Music Man
(1,184 posts)Someone could hack Joe Biden's account and post something truly vile in his name. And it can spread like wildfire before they have the chance to correct or explain it.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)no one is going to believe that.
People are way too busy looking for ways we can lose. They need to stop being so afraid.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)groundloop
(11,523 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)and a conspiracy theorist extraordinaire....just to keep up. That said, you should calm down and relax whenever possible. There are plenty more paranoid conspiracy theorists to pick up the slack.
sarisataka
(18,779 posts)You are crazy. You should should calm down and relax.
Now that we have that out of the way, this was not any sort of dry run. If you are going to do a dry run preparing for the election you will hack in to some no name schmuck who will probably never notice that strange messages went out from his Twitter.
You would save hacking big name high profile people for the actual run rather than tipping your hand so early as to give time for security to be improved.
msongs
(67,453 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)inside..