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My crazy theory: the real attack is on the Twitter stock price and the bitcoin is a distraction.

by scottmf 6y ago

gowld 6y ago
Then why not go big and hack @realDonaldTrump?
- rsecora 6y ago
  Nobody want a drone over their head. seriously, this hackers are not so imaginative.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
    Hacking a former president and presidential candidate.... not really that far of a jump.
- scottmf 6y ago
  I assume each of his tweets have to be approved manually by some employees somewhere considering a hacker could start a war with his account. Would make sense to have something like this for @jack, too — could explain why his bio was changed but he didn't tweet.
  - benlumen 6y ago
    I think his bio always said #bitcoin. He owns the cash app.
rsecora 6y ago
It make no sense, the market was closed by the time of the attack. And they have started with bitcoin exchanges, not with the high profile accounts.
- zone411 6y ago
  You can trade after hours but I really doubt that was the purpose.
  - isatty 6y ago
    Not enough volume so you can't blend in with /r/WSB that way
- adventured 6y ago
  It makes potential sense in fact. If this rocks Twitter to its foundation as a trustworthy platform, it's the end of Twitter as far as prominent figures being willing to utilize it. If Twitter loses its prominent figures edge, it's all coming down. Twitter has nothing else, it's mostly a broadcast platform for elite people in terms of where the extreme majority of all of its value is produced. That said, that outcome is far-fetched. The content that was Tweeted appears to be far too benign to accomplish that outcome. The attackers seem to have intentionally avoided Tweeting anything particularly dangerous. If they were trying to ruin Twitter, they would have used the accounts to do something far worse, that would terrify prominent figures away from using the service. I think they had one target in mind, to go after their DMs, and hit lots of accounts as a cover to hide which one was the primary target.

My crazy theory: the real attack is on the Twitter stock price and the bitcoin is a distraction.

gowld 6y ago

Then why not go big and hack @realDonaldTrump?

rsecora 6y ago
Nobody want a drone over their head. seriously, this hackers are not so imaginative.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
  Hacking a former president and presidential candidate.... not really that far of a jump.
scottmf 6y ago
I assume each of his tweets have to be approved manually by some employees somewhere considering a hacker could start a war with his account. Would make sense to have something like this for @jack, too — could explain why his bio was changed but he didn't tweet.
- benlumen 6y ago
  I think his bio always said #bitcoin. He owns the cash app.

rsecora 6y ago

It make no sense, the market was closed by the time of the attack. And they have started with bitcoin exchanges, not with the high profile accounts.

zone411 6y ago
You can trade after hours but I really doubt that was the purpose.
- isatty 6y ago
  Not enough volume so you can't blend in with /r/WSB that way
adventured 6y ago
It makes potential sense in fact. If this rocks Twitter to its foundation as a trustworthy platform, it's the end of Twitter as far as prominent figures being willing to utilize it. If Twitter loses its prominent figures edge, it's all coming down. Twitter has nothing else, it's mostly a broadcast platform for elite people in terms of where the extreme majority of all of its value is produced. That said, that outcome is far-fetched. The content that was Tweeted appears to be far too benign to accomplish that outcome. The attackers seem to have intentionally avoided Tweeting anything particularly dangerous. If they were trying to ruin Twitter, they would have used the accounts to do something far worse, that would terrify prominent figures away from using the service. I think they had one target in mind, to go after their DMs, and hit lots of accounts as a cover to hide which one was the primary target.