Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by LeifCarrotson on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:40PM (#24013748)

I would be surprised if the average FBI agent was less likely to plug in an unknown USB drive than the average Twitter engineer.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by Nuzzerino on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:07PM (#24015912)

What makes you say that?

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by theelous3 on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:51PM (#24016620)

Software engineers are much more aware and focused on the problem of technical attacks. An fbi agent has no innate reason to distrust usb sticks. After all, they're just for "moving files" or whatever other basic tasks they use them for.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:25PM (#24016825)

> Software engineers are much more aware and focused on the problem of technical attacks.

We’re constantly presented with evidence to the contrary.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by mewpmewp2 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:11AM (#24018087)

The point was "less likely", not that all engineers would not do that.

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