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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by neurostimulant on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:47PM (#23852441)
Hmm, how much money this scam would potentially generates? I think the salary of an engineer working on twitter would be higher given how fast this scam would be shut down. Would a twitter employee risk their career to this scam?
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#23852916)
If you can't get caught, it's just some free money... depends on moral compass...

Maybe we'll get a leetcode question out of it, how much should you risk your career for after taking a job at a FAANG?

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by therein on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:58PM (#23853414)
More than 130k, that's for sure. It would have to be orders of magnitude larger.
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by swagonomixxx on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:12PM (#23853561)
That would be hilarious and full of irony.

Given that most FANGers are obsessed with cash, I'm pretty sure they'd say "yes" to risking their career for some sweet BTC.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:28PM (#23854273)
I would be surprised if it were an engineer, but not everyone who is employed would be an engineer. When I was at Google two fairly high profile incidents were enacted by contractors (one in the IT "TechStop" group and one a data center tech)
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by alberts00 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:51PM (#23852510)
It might as well be an employee whose devices were compromised.
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