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AFAIK Trump hasn't used Twitter for anything but brief public statements and comments on the current (and usually minor) issues at hand. Basically just gets ar
by jrapdx3 10y ago
AFAIK Trump hasn't used Twitter for anything but brief public statements and comments on the current (and usually minor) issues at hand. Basically just gets around editorial slants of news media to address his huge following.
Reasonably enough, so far haven't seen anything suggesting he'd use Twitter or similar when there's something substantial at stake. However the possibility someone could hack in and use his account is a risk he must have considered. As you say it would be a hot target for that sort of mischief. Obviously it could be bad if that happened.
Given the fact that his accounts haven't been hacked into in that way despite the ample exposure over many months, it suggests we could consider it a good sign of taking security seriously.
- secstate 10y agoTwo things. One, he's used Twitter to post some seriously absurd but significant charges, like an fact-less opinion that there was widespread corruption in our last election cycle. Second, I'm in the middle of reading the Undoing Project by Micheal Lewis, and your last statement is a prime example of how bad humans are at statistics. Months (or even years) of security have no bearing on the likely hood or ability of an account to be hacked in the future. Only hard data on many accounts over years can begin to allow us to estimate that, and even then it's just a probability. If I flip a coin one hundred times and see heads one hundred times, what's are the odds I see heads on the next flip?