Agreed, but unfortunately, it is. That ship set sail sometime around when DJT became president of the United States and began effectively indicating policy decisions via 280 character snippets of...
Agreed, but unfortunately, it is. That ship set sail sometime around when DJT became president of the United States and began effectively indicating policy decisions via 280 character snippets of text (that occasionally resembled syntactically correct English).
I don't know what you mean? You can't tell what he's going to do based on some vague or nonsensical tweet. There's nothing essential about it and no legal force. Might as well wait to see an...
I don't know what you mean? You can't tell what he's going to do based on some vague or nonsensical tweet. There's nothing essential about it and no legal force. Might as well wait to see an executive order.
If the hackers got in and starting tweeting nonsense as Trump, I'm not sure anyone could tell and I'm not sure how it would matter, though it would make headlines for a day.
You don't think a lot of world worries when DJT tweets? It would've been trivial for hackers to impersonate his style of writing and imply that the U.S. was going to drop a nuke on Russia or China...
I don't know what you mean? You can't tell what he's going to do based on some vague or nonsensical tweet. There's nothing essential about it and no legal force. Might as well wait to see an executive order.
You don't think a lot of world worries when DJT tweets? It would've been trivial for hackers to impersonate his style of writing and imply that the U.S. was going to drop a nuke on Russia or China without providing any evidence, and descend the world into chaos for several minutes while everyone figures out what's going on.
You say "vague" and "nonsensical"—that's exactly what's so great to hackers and state operators—those kinds of actors thrive on misinformation and confusion. The very thing DJT is known for. It doesn't need to be legal, or make sense. It just needs to exist, if only for a few minutes.
The troll in me thinks the best thing to do for a Trump hack would have been to tweet an apology to the American people and a promise to do better, a good long 20-tweet thread covering racism,...
The troll in me thinks the best thing to do for a Trump hack would have been to tweet an apology to the American people and a promise to do better, a good long 20-tweet thread covering racism, conservatives, black lives matter, defunding the police, etc.
Imagine watching Trump try to walk that back and the shitstorm it would create.
Exactly. Frankly I'm actually disappointed/shocked that the actors behind this chose to exploit a systems-level hack of a multi-billion company for a... bitcoin doubling scheme.
Exactly. Frankly I'm actually disappointed/shocked that the actors behind this chose to exploit a systems-level hack of a multi-billion company for a... bitcoin doubling scheme.
I don't think that's true... The media loves Trump tweets, they make for lucrative content, and that creates the illusion they have more meaning than they do. Maybe earlier in his presidency...
I don't think that's true... The media loves Trump tweets, they make for lucrative content, and that creates the illusion they have more meaning than they do.
Maybe earlier in his presidency people in power paid attention, but at this point after the vast majority of tweets have proven meaningless to anyone but his base I don't think people are taking them seriously.
Trump could tweet ignorant, incendiary threats about nukes and other governments would of course take note, but no one would panic.
The Trump admin has done a lot of things that are worthy of attention (and horror) but none of those policies, appointments or rollbacks happened via tweet.
Apologies, hopefully this isn't seen as a duplicate of the other two posts about this already up, but Casey Newton—an excellent writer—has written up a pretty good summary of what's happened today...
Apologies, hopefully this isn't seen as a duplicate of the other two posts about this already up, but Casey Newton—an excellent writer—has written up a pretty good summary of what's happened today given that the dust is starting to settle, and the broader social implications that this presents.
Update: Looks like Vice is reporting that hackers paid a Twitter employee to give them access to their internal tooling to change email addresses and reset passwords of the affected accounts....
Update: Looks like Vice is reporting that hackers paid a Twitter employee to give them access to their internal tooling to change email addresses and reset passwords of the affected accounts. Internal espionage!
I thought a couple people lost their accounts when I saw a headline. I should've clicked through. This is probably the largest, most noticeable breach of a widely-used online service ever. Is...
I thought a couple people lost their accounts when I saw a headline. I should've clicked through.
This is probably the largest, most noticeable breach of a widely-used online service ever. Is there any timeline yet? A breach notification? (required by California's CCPA, EU's GDPR, and Canada's PIPEDA)
The hacks of Sony's playstation network jump to mind - though there, the humor was in their incompetence fixing it and getting hacked repeatedly, like four times in a row. Twitter is just a bit...
The hacks of Sony's playstation network jump to mind - though there, the humor was in their incompetence fixing it and getting hacked repeatedly, like four times in a row.
Twitter is just a bit more serious than a video game network.
Global security crises? That's some egregious clickbait. This also stood out: The last thing we need is for overblown fear to be used as a way to drum up public support for another round of...
Global security crises? That's some egregious clickbait.
This also stood out:
It is in such a world that I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who among other things wants to end content moderation.
The last thing we need is for overblown fear to be used as a way to drum up public support for another round of attempts to make platforms as we know them effectively illegal (and raise the bar for entry onto the space to a corporate level).
Agreed, but unfortunately, it is. That ship set sail sometime around when DJT became president of the United States and began effectively indicating policy decisions via 280 character snippets of text (that occasionally resembled syntactically correct English).
I don't know what you mean? You can't tell what he's going to do based on some vague or nonsensical tweet. There's nothing essential about it and no legal force. Might as well wait to see an executive order.
If the hackers got in and starting tweeting nonsense as Trump, I'm not sure anyone could tell and I'm not sure how it would matter, though it would make headlines for a day.
You don't think a lot of world worries when DJT tweets? It would've been trivial for hackers to impersonate his style of writing and imply that the U.S. was going to drop a nuke on Russia or China without providing any evidence, and descend the world into chaos for several minutes while everyone figures out what's going on.
You say "vague" and "nonsensical"—that's exactly what's so great to hackers and state operators—those kinds of actors thrive on misinformation and confusion. The very thing DJT is known for. It doesn't need to be legal, or make sense. It just needs to exist, if only for a few minutes.
The troll in me thinks the best thing to do for a Trump hack would have been to tweet an apology to the American people and a promise to do better, a good long 20-tweet thread covering racism, conservatives, black lives matter, defunding the police, etc.
Imagine watching Trump try to walk that back and the shitstorm it would create.
Exactly. Frankly I'm actually disappointed/shocked that the actors behind this chose to exploit a systems-level hack of a multi-billion company for a... bitcoin doubling scheme.
I don't think that's true... The media loves Trump tweets, they make for lucrative content, and that creates the illusion they have more meaning than they do.
Maybe earlier in his presidency people in power paid attention, but at this point after the vast majority of tweets have proven meaningless to anyone but his base I don't think people are taking them seriously.
Trump could tweet ignorant, incendiary threats about nukes and other governments would of course take note, but no one would panic.
The Trump admin has done a lot of things that are worthy of attention (and horror) but none of those policies, appointments or rollbacks happened via tweet.
Apologies, hopefully this isn't seen as a duplicate of the other two posts about this already up, but Casey Newton—an excellent writer—has written up a pretty good summary of what's happened today given that the dust is starting to settle, and the broader social implications that this presents.
Update: Looks like Vice is reporting that hackers paid a Twitter employee to give them access to their internal tooling to change email addresses and reset passwords of the affected accounts. Internal espionage!
The call came from inside the house? Makes sense with how they could have gotten access to what they did, and why they used it for Bitcoin doubling.
I thought a couple people lost their accounts when I saw a headline. I should've clicked through.
This is probably the largest, most noticeable breach of a widely-used online service ever. Is there any timeline yet? A breach notification? (required by California's CCPA, EU's GDPR, and Canada's PIPEDA)
I guess that last one will be in a couple days.
The hacks of Sony's playstation network jump to mind - though there, the humor was in their incompetence fixing it and getting hacked repeatedly, like four times in a row.
Twitter is just a bit more serious than a video game network.
Global security crises? That's some egregious clickbait.
This also stood out:
The last thing we need is for overblown fear to be used as a way to drum up public support for another round of attempts to make platforms as we know them effectively illegal (and raise the bar for entry onto the space to a corporate level).