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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by retox on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:18PM (#16615325)
I refuse to create accounts on site that require even a phone number, let alone government ID. It will eventually get lost and things like passports being faked can land you in prison or watchlists if someone like Israel decides to steal your identity while committing an extra-legal assassination.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by scottmf on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:09PM (#16615511)
Perfectly sane reason for not signing up with Twitter.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by JonasJSchreiber on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:09PM (#16615754)
I want to downvote the person you replied to and upvote your comment. HN apparently doesn't work like that so I'll stick with a single upvote :)
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by jonny_eh on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:39AM (#16616217)
Once you get enough karma you can downvote comments.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by qu4z-2 on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:24PM (#16624356)
But the delay is specifically so you can internalise the fact that downvoting here is a stronger claim than on, say, reddit.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by AaronFriel on Sunday March 18, 2018 @09:04PM (#16615483)
That escalated quickly. Are you sure if Israel wanted to pin an extra-legal assassination on you, they couldn't do so already?
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by nkantar on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:11PM (#16615760)
I don't think it's about them wanting to explicitly target someone, but about one's odds of being randomly implicated increasing with every leak.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by realusername on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:54AM (#16616558)
They could use Google Captcha and create two kind of verified account, you don't necessary need an ID.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by neotek on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:05AM (#16616586)
CAPTCHA is an entirely pointless way of verifying humans, you can buy human-powered CAPTCHA solves for less than $1 per thousand.
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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by realusername on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:24AM (#16616637)
Ah sorry then, I did not know it was that cheap :/
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