Who was behind the incident? Stupid people who shouldn't own bitcoins. That's who the weak point was. Anyway, you'd think there's a "who did this" logging thing where employees are logged in as themselves so they can trace back an email reset to a human being. If not, HOLY SHIT, change it so it works that way, Twitter! Then again they're more concerned about politics and influencing elections then they are about not storing passwords in plain text for example.
It does seem rather amateurish. Given the immense power they had the best they could think of doing was stealing some Bitcoins. Apparently they made around $100k but of course now have to try to launder it.
Nah. It's the best we are made aware of. Who knows how many DM's or other interesting stuff they got their hands on.
The "Trends Blacklist" item on the Admin panel screenshot is interesting, since Jack claimed in front of Congress that the Trends are determined by algorithm and the company doesn't manipulate them.
Possibly, but in a way, they made a very big point. Even "real account" twitter posts can be fake. If I were a company that used twitter, I might be rethinking using it as a platform for PR releases. Have you ever seen a fake presser from reuters?
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It does seem rather amateurish. Given the immense power they had the best they could think of doing was stealing some Bitcoins. Apparently they made around $100k but of course now have to try to launder it.
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To me seems like the bitcoin scam was just a smokescreen.
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Nah. It's the best we are made aware of. Who knows how many DM's or other interesting stuff they got their hands on.
Btw, anyone notice Twitter uses Blacklist instead of Blocklist?
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Nah. It's the best we are made aware of. Who knows how many DM's or other interesting stuff they got their hands on.
The "Trends Blacklist" item on the Admin panel screenshot is interesting, since Jack claimed in front of Congress that the Trends are determined by algorithm and the company doesn't manipulate them.
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