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Is it just me, or does this seem suspiciously poorly thought out? Perhaps there is a second stage involving stock plays. The BTC thing might be a diversion. Or
by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Is it just me, or does this seem suspiciously poorly thought out? Perhaps there is a second stage involving stock plays. The BTC thing might be a diversion.
Or we are incredibly lucky and the exploit was found by people with really bad foresight and imagination.
- Scoundreller 6y agoOr it's been exploited for months/years to read people's DMs and private accounts and they decided to burn it now mostly for lolz?
- mekkkkkk 6y agoThat would be so incredibly stupid. Burning a money machine of that magnitude for lulz? I don't think anyone would do that.
- Scoundreller 6y agoSometimes relationships fall apart and things get ugly.
- vanshg 6y agoPurely speculation, but the exploit could be tied to the APIs that they are deprecating today. It's possible that this is simply a last hurrah
- cwkoss 6y agoInteresting thought. I was thinking that an access token was about to expire, but I like your theory better.
- XCSme 6y agoIt was mentioned in another comment that something like a new Twitter API is released tomorrow, so maybe one of the last chances to use the exploit?
- x3n0ph3n3 6y agoStock plays would be much easier to detect and trace.
- mekkkkkk 6y agoIt's true, but maybe not impossible to pull off. The exploit could've been purchased by people deeply connected and organized. If you split your investment and divert it enough, it will be impossible to differentiate from all the other incoming sales tomorrow. There are so many smarter moves that probably could have been made though. The upside of this one is that we'll keep speculating for a good while (maybe forever) if it wasn't just a stupid crypto scam attempt after all.
- x3n0ph3n3 6y agoThat sounds much more complicated and likely to involve too many players.