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You mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.
by jonny_eh 6y ago
You 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.