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I'm super curious why you think that? A 17 year old from Florida tweeted as Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Barack Obama. Why couldn't the Canadian government do it?
by neom 6y ago
I'm super curious why you think that? A 17 year old from Florida tweeted as Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Barack Obama. Why couldn't the Canadian government do it?
- Zren 6y agoObtaining Admin access on Twitter probably can't take down Twitter. Although, an admin might be able to run heavy tasks that a normal user can't access to DOS the service. That hypothetical would be even easier for sysadmin's to track down though since I believe only a single admin account was compromised.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoNot really. The Twitter hack was a community admin (account data, customer service rep), not a sysadmin (software config)
- npunt 6y agoTwitter isn't anywhere in the same league as Apple/Google/Microsoft in terms of security.
- neom 6y agoIt was an anecdote. If a 17 year old can socially engineer twitter, I don't think it's crazy to think that a room of comp sci PhDs in South Korea couldn't figure out how to mess with infrastructure, in fact I'm quite sure they could. There are not 3 countries in the world who could cause this type of outage, there are many.
- jrockway 6y agoDo we know a lot about Apple's internal reliability/security engineering? Google writes books about it and has things like Project Zero. Windows is used by governments everywhere and so Microsoft probably has some contacts in high places. I have never heard anything about Apple.