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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by dvt on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:44PM (#23852399)
It's not too hyperbolic to say that WW3 could be started on a platform like Twitter. Having a "shutdown" button doesn't seem that extreme when essentially the entire site seems to be compromised. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Congressional hearings are going to happen.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by awinder on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:10PM (#23852818)
What if you prevented the intentional start of WW3, that would be quite the trampling of some rights
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by cortesoft on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:04PM (#23852716)
If you make a shutdown button, that becomes a new target for hackers
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jackson1442 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:14PM (#23852880)
There's always a shutdown button. Twitter can simply edit the DNS records to point to a static maintenance page.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Tokkemon on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:32PM (#23855107)
Yup, people forget sometimes the core fundamentals here. These are just websites at the end of the day.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by panopticon on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:07PM (#23852773)
Any more of a target than the other administration/moderation tools Twitter has available?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by RunawayGalaxy on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:00AM (#23856235)
To what end?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by blablabla123 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:44PM (#23854400)
It hasn't gotten so far that heads of states end up in angry loops of escalation (yet). Luckily the only 2 hotheads in that position are Trump and Kim Jong-Un, I would argue and they seem to get along.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by gowld on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:48PM (#23852458)
Ok but a few accounts asking for Bitcoin from rubes isn't WWIII
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jedberg on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:02PM (#23852690)
They got Obama’s account too. What would happen if they got Trump’s?
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