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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by kshacker on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:00PM (#23853434)
I will bite. Without taking a political stance. Imagine you could show GRU that they can make Trump tweet "I just ordered a nuclear strike on..."

What value would you place on this?

The proof will go along with another method of hacking the account that is not disclosed.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by notatoad on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:07PM (#23853514)
After having alerted twitter to the hack and given them time to fix it? I'd say that's worth approximately $0
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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by jrumbut on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:17PM (#23853614)
If life was like Sherlock Holmes, the real hack would be put in place during the rush to fix this one.

I don't seriously suggest this is what happened though. I don't have any information about this. Glad I never did send or receive Twitter DMs though.

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