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Anyone else's BS detector sounding off right now? This is certainly the most helpful "attacker" I've ever heard of, politely answering all kinds of detailed que
by listenallyall 7y ago
Anyone else's BS detector sounding off right now? This is certainly the most helpful "attacker" I've ever heard of, politely answering all kinds of detailed questions AFTER he got what he wanted. This story states the attacker was able to register a Twitter handle just minutes after the author changed his. Does Twitter actually allow this, it doesn't lock up the old handle for a period of time?Seems like a basic security measure for Twitter to implement.
And what does the Facebook account have to do with anything -- why would the attacker want it, and further, how did he steal that without already knowing the password (if the attacker couldn't receive Twitter's reset emails, he couldn't have received Facebook's either)? And if the attacker "was able to control my email" then how did the author continue to communicate, by email? There's just a lot to unravel here.
- judge2020 7y agoYes, you can instantly take a handle that someone just-recently let go of, as long as it was a username change and not a suspension or deletion.