Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks
by easterncalculus on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:46PM
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I am definitely convinced that there is something more to this story that we don't know about yet. Insider access like this is expensive - too much for the bitcoin they made. The direct messages of the accounts involved could be priceless. People really do talk about such private things over sites like Twitter, and it's all so low return for what is easily one of the largest blue check account breach incidents. The scale of this is too much to ignore to me.
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Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks
by abhorrence on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:17PM
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Insider access may not be as expensive as you think. Some of the lowest paid employees (e.g. customer service like roles) at tech companies have relatively broad access to systems. Those employees routinely underestimate both the likelihood that they’ll be caught, and what the consequences will be.
Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks
by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:26PM
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To be honest, the bar to being tried is pretty high... you can always claim someone stole your phone with your 2FA (if it's being used) and that you reused a password.
Getting fired is likely but someone getting paid a couple of dollars in India could flip you for $10,000 just as well as someone in the US could flip you for $1,000,000.
Re:July 15 Twitter Attacks
by abhorrence on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:59PM
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It depends on the type of employee. Customer service agents typically don’t work from home (apart from our current situation of course). They often don’t have access to their equipment outside of working hours. This makes it quite a bit more likely that they’ll be charged with some sort of crime.
When you’re someone making near minimum wage in the US, at a job you don’t particularly like, I think the number ends up being significantly lower than a million.