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Re:A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to ... by jorblumesea on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:30PM (#21874693)
If China got OPM, they could easily get most of Twitter's DBs. Most likely through Nationals passing vulns back to home state intelligence agency, who can exfil data but not finger the moles.
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Re:A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to ... by angry_octet on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:43PM (#21876158)
That's really a non-sequitur. OPM was a basket case, unmaintained legacy systems in a backwater agency.
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