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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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