Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
by rootsudo on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:29PM
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Yes, many people consider facebook and Twitter "The Internet." and while they are just two giant tech companies publishing web apps.
Networking Layer is invisible to 99% of users nowadays. "it just works."
Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
by Sebb767 on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:46PM
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> Networking Layer is invisible to 99% of users nowadays. "it just works."
Yes, but the problem is that it didn't take someone who knows better to hack what is (used as) an official government communication platform. Or one of the largest social networks, or a company with thousands of engineers - take your pick; it's hard to put this in a good light.
The Discord connection was known early on. I was really surprised anyone would do something like this and communicate over Discord about it.
The fact that no VPN/Tor were involved, the fact that Gmail was involved... that's really crazy. It's hard to tell when being dumb ends and being self destructive begins?
Is it possible to be this ignorant about the Internet while perpetrating something so big?