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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by newacct583 on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:25PM (#24013561)
> To pull off a hack like this is indicative of these kids being intelligent, risky and bold. Yeah, they went where they shouldn't

They engaged in straight up fraud! It's not like they just pranked some folks, they tried to fool the world into sending them money. It's true the fraud didn't work that well (or rather, not in relation to the severity of the Twitter hack), but they still stole some $100kUS or whatever.

You want those people LEADING us "into the future of science"?

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by shadowgovt on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:37PM (#24013695)
> they tried to fool the world into sending them money

Their mistake was they failed to call it a "series A funding round."

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