Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by alkonaut on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:15PM (#23852902)

That’s a scenario I find much less likely than the hundreds of Trump tweets that would set off domestic violence within minutes.

If Trump would tweet what the fringe communities want to hear (example: Trump tweets that state law enforcement have started rounding up people with Hawaii shirts and confiscating their weapons and should be seen as enemy combatants and engaged on sight. That would turn ugly very quickly).

A well crafted tweet about e.g the Taliban could easily put US soldiers abroad in harms way immediately too.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jkhdigital on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:10PM (#23854103)

I think you’re overestimating the number of people in the US who would actually respond decisively to something like that. But it’s more than zero, unfortunately, which is too many.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by alkonaut on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:24PM (#23864546)

Yeah I don’t think it would be the start of a civil war but I certainly believe dozens or hundreds of people would become violent.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by tornato7 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:28PM (#23854720)

Up the reaction would be more like "oh look, another stupid Trump tweet."

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