Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by hguant on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:37PM (#24016129)

I wonder what sort of machine those folks were plugging it into? If it's their general purpose work issued machine, shame on them, but I can't believe the FBI doesn't have a high and low side networks. How many plugged into the high side? How many plugged into the "this is my email and timecard" computer?

I have a Chromebook running arch[0] that has a borked network adapter than I use to plug weird things into/use as an airgapped box I can reset in about 5 minutes. I'd have no qualms about plugging anything into that

[0] BTW I run Arch

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by theelous3 on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:48PM (#24016605)

Nice I run arch too. I like the way it is, and isn't.

As an aside to that important point, it seems like the solution here is to just remove all random device access points and drives before giving a system to some luddite with no security awareness.

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