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‘ we are deliberately limiting the detail we share on our remediation steps at this time to protect their effectiveness ’ Translation - it’s not fixed. Securit
by jnsaff2 6y ago
‘ we are deliberately limiting the detail we share on our remediation steps at this time to protect their effectiveness ’
Translation - it’s not fixed. Security through obscurity.
Also timeline says ‘Wednesday’ post-mortem should be accurate to the minute or second.
- philjohn 6y agoThis isn't a post mortem, it's a press release. The internal post mortem will no doubt be accurate down to the second.
- draw_down 6y agoActually, it’s good that they’re communicating proactively. It’s not supposed to be a postmortem. This post sucks
- lima 6y ago> Also timeline says ‘Wednesday’ post-mortem should be accurate to the minute or second. That's because it took them almost two hours to stop the attack - doesn't look good.
- sabas123 6y agois two hours really that long?
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- rsanheim 6y agoWhen you have heads of state making insane executive proclamations via your platform, and you know that your weak sauce security is compromised — yes, it’s way too long.
- Spivak 6y agoI feel like we’re elevating Twitter to something way more meaningful and official than what it really is as a large scale public community bulletin board. Like take down the forged messages, fix the hole that let them post them, issue an apology, and compensate the people who had their data stolen. No need to blow this up into something huge.
- gukov 6y agoFor a p0 event, kind of.
- swyx 6y agoif I were pwned as badly as this, esp via social engineering, I would be extremely hesitant to say anything was fixed within days. be reasonable.