Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by SahAssar on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:50PM (#24013865)

No, and that's why we (basically all nations that have banks or nuclear power plants) have specific laws governing them.

Look, if you want to pass a law saying all internet business having X personal data needs to prove Y security, then I'd probably be for it (depending on X and Y). We already have PCI-DSS and similar today for payment providers. I'm just saying that there is nothing like that today, and if there was we'd have a lot more irresponsible people in prison.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by pps43 on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:54PM (#24013935)

In "2020 Commission Report" by Jeffrey Lewis, North Korea nukes the US because of one twit. This looks very plausible to me.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by SahAssar on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:10PM (#24014142)

Are you arguing against something I've said? Because if so I don't understand what or how.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by pps43 on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:59PM (#24015263)

I'm arguing that Twitter is now critical infrastructure, like banking or power grid, and needs to take security seriously. If they don't do it themselves, they'll get regulation like HIPAA.

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by SahAssar on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:11PM (#24015943)

Then you need to find someone else to argue with. All I said was that bad security is not criminal currently.

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