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President Trump’s Twitter doesn't have 2FA, password “maga2020 ”
- paramost 6y agoThis guy has cracked Trumps password before. Incredible... I would have expected such a password to be cracked much sooner. Maybe no one is actually trying to get into Trumps twitter account?
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoI'd guess they wouldn't be the first, but they may be the first white hat.
- altmind 6y agoits claimed that the previous password was "youarefired", that is also unlikely.
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- ainar-g 6y agoI thought Twitter required all “checkmarks” to have 2FA enabled, but apparently that's not the case? Sounds rather… careless.
- dpcan 6y agoIt's far more likely that this article is fake.
- TakakiTohno 6y agoTechCrunch is pretty trusted. I don't think they'd publish this if it weren't true. They'd be accountable for all sorts of libel
- ncw96 6y agoAs mentioned in the article, a Twitter spokesperson says: “We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today” White House also denying this story.
- OminousWeapons 6y agoWhile this is certainly not impossible, I find it to be highly unlikely. If it's true that Trump's password is this weak then we should have seen account takeovers by now considering there are many people who would love to control that account both for economic reasons (Trump's tweets used to move markets) and political ones.
- mauvehaus 6y agoThere would be no point. The information would be immediately disavowed by Trump. If you wanted to usefully manipulate people, you'd need to be a little more subtle.
- solarkraft 6y ago> The information would be immediately disavowed by Trump. You can still make a few 100k in btc or stock derivatives before he does.
- foepys 6y agoThe link in the OP is redirecting me over advertising.com. Here's the outline: https://outline.com/5BYNkE https://outline.com/5BYNkE
- dstick 6y agoDuplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858219
- ALittleLight 6y agoIf this is true I'm deeply disappointed in the world's hackers that such a vulnerability on such a target went unexploited for such a long time. However, all that said, I doubt it's true just because I expect someone else would've discovered this long before now.
- chrisco255 6y agoA better password would have been "makeauthenticationgreatagain"
- banana_giraffe 6y agoThe article is light on details of how they verified this, but if they did get in, I'd wonder if they got into a honeypot of some sorts.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoAt this point I'd be surprised if trump's twitter didn't have an implicit 2FA of calling someone on staff for suspicious logins. Is there good information as to why the July 15 account takeover attack didn't include trump's twitter?
- bhj 6y ago"Mr. Trump’s account got extra protection after past incidents, according to a senior administration official and a Twitter employee, who would speak only anonymously because the security measures were private." Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/twitter-hack-investigation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/twitter-hack-i...