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Only 17 and his life is ruined... what a shame all around. A total embarrassment to Twitter, luck to the US that it seems that it wasn't foreign actors, and tec
by azinman2 6y ago
Only 17 and his life is ruined... what a shame all around. A total embarrassment to Twitter, luck to the US that it seems that it wasn't foreign actors, and technical skills that probably could have been put to better use to eventually make that money legitimately instead all goes down the drain, and possibly money never returned (?) to those scammed.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoI'm sure he'll be fine. They'll let him stir in jail for a few years to break him of the notion of ever doing it again, then he'll get picked up by a three-letter agency and recruited to do the same kind of work for them as a condition for getting out of jail early.
- bastawhiz 6y agoCall me old fashioned, but being forced into public service after being made a felon for a non-violent crime seems like a terrible outcome no matter how you slice it.
- adamnemecek 6y agoThis doesn't actually happen.
- voidpointercast 6y agoYeah call my a cynic, but if a 17 year old capable of this actually got caught, It doesn’t seem that hard to do in the first place. I wonder if someone gave them the exploit
- brbsix 6y agoThis was phone-based spear phishing, social engineering. There was no exploit.
- azinman2 6y agoIt did to Adrian Lamo.
- user5994461 6y agoThere is little technical skill involved in running common scams.