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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by 0x00000000 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:06PM (#23851833)
They could have inconspicuously joined the numerous TSLA shorters and made 100x that with one tweet
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by cryptica on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:32PM (#23852202)
This strategy would require having money to begin with. It's a pretty big assumption that hackers have any money. If they had money, they wouldn't have to be hackers.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:25PM (#23853026)
Whatever hack you have that can take a verified account over with 2FA is worth some money... you could sell access to any account with this bypass...
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by bob33212 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:47PM (#23852437)
And it would need to be a relatively small bet compared to your total net worth to avoid detection by the SEC and the hack could fail at the exact time Tesla had a 20% pop leaving you underwater
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by icedchai on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:53PM (#23854458)
Deep out of the money options are generally cheap and can have enormous returns.
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