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I'm flabbergasted they haven't just hit the panic button and shut everything down. Unless, perhaps, they can't.
by jaxxstorm 6y ago
I'm flabbergasted they haven't just hit the panic button and shut everything down.
Unless, perhaps, they can't.
- jonny_eh 6y agoYou mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.
- jasoncartwright 6y agoIs it? They don't appear to know what will be hit next or how to stop it.
- kristofferR 6y agoThe hackers are changing the login information of the hacked accounts too, gonna require a massive amount of cleanup.
- dvt 6y agoIt's not too hyperbolic to say that WW3 could be started on a platform like Twitter. Having a "shutdown" button doesn't seem that extreme when essentially the entire site seems to be compromised. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Congressional hearings are going to happen.
- awinder 6y agoWhat if you prevented the intentional start of WW3, that would be quite the trampling of some rights
- gowld 6y agoOk but a few accounts asking for Bitcoin from rubes isn't WWIII
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- jedberg 6y agoThey got Obama’s account too. What would happen if they got Trump’s?
- cortesoft 6y agoIf you make a shutdown button, that becomes a new target for hackers
- panopticon 6y agoAny more of a target than the other administration/moderation tools Twitter has available?
- jackson1442 6y agoThere's always a shutdown button. Twitter can simply edit the DNS records to point to a static maintenance page.
- Tokkemon 6y agoYup, people forget sometimes the core fundamentals here. These are just websites at the end of the day.
- RunawayGalaxy 6y agoTo what end?
- blablabla123 6y agoIt hasn't gotten so far that heads of states end up in angry loops of escalation (yet). Luckily the only 2 hotheads in that position are Trump and Kim Jong-Un, I would argue and they seem to get along.
- jf- 6y agoI don’t, they can say anything posing as anyone and the general public will believe it, this is a genuine hazard. Seriously, if I were them I’d pull the plug until this is fixed.
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- s5300 6y agoNot really. As far as we can tell right now, Obama and Biden could've posted about a complete coup to assassinate Trump and that every middle eastern country already has nukes on their way...
- rsanheim 6y agoIts not extreme at all.
- cgk 6y agoGiven the nature of how twitter has influenced elections, why would this be extreme? So far the known targets all appear to be of a particular political persuasion, but I haven't seen a comprehensive list yet.
- sdiouhs9 6y agoImagine if the hacker was a bit more nefarious and hacked Trump's account to say he was launching a first strike attack against Iran or on Musk's account saying he was halting Model S production due to battery defect. The real world ramifications could be immense.
- jonny_eh 6y agoOk, y'all have convinced me. Shut it down!
- catalogia 6y agoNot as extreme as demonstrating that they evidently lack the ability to stop it...
- suzzer99 6y agoTwitter used to go down all the time. Just put up the fail whale for old time's sake.
- libraryatnight 6y agothat would actually add a little charm to this shit storm. A curious devil inside me would like to be a fly on the wall at twitter right now.
- maaarghk 6y agothe anti-chaos monkey will just self heal the system, heh heh heh heh heh
- donohoe 6y agoExactly. Just like AT&T and Verizon often shutdown the telephone system when its being abused.
- perryizgr8 6y agoATT and Verizon also don't block users for speaking something that goes against their CEO's politics.
- paulpauper 6y agoa temp fix is to modify the backend to prevent anyone from pasting a bitcoin address or any long string of numbers and letters that may resemble such an address
- choward 6y agoNot really. That just prevents them from posting bitcoin addresses. They still have access to all the accounts and can post whatever they like. It's still dangerous. And what about all the real posts that contain long strings?
- paulpauper 6y agoi said 'temp'. how many real posts are 30+ chars string of gibberish? like .01% of all posts ?
- mod 6y agoFor the specific variation this hack is currently taking, sure. But the actual problem is that someone has access to these accounts and can post anything they want. That is not okay, and has nothing to do with bitcoin addresses.
- Nextgrid 6y agoCryptocurrency scams have been going on for years despite the fix being an easy "if reply to a high-profile account and contains the words "bitcoin" or "giveaway" then ban". If they couldn't (or didn't want to) do it then I very much doubt they can do it now.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoInstead twitter will repeatedly ban my account for having very little activity.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThe automatic bans on new accounts are just a scummy tactic to get everyone's phone numbers.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoApparently blue check marks can’t tweet atm: https://twitter.com/brandontwall/status/1283525485440503811?s=21 https://twitter.com/brandontwall/status/1283525485440503811?...
- ageitgey 6y agoI've got a check and I can't tweet. It just says 'unable to send'. Twitter must have no idea where the source of the hack is.
- jpindar 6y agoI canna stop it Cap'n, the computer's overridden the manual override!
- tossAfterUsing 6y agoremember the failwhale?