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> Not very sophisticated

They did not apply social engineering to a random set of Twitter employees. Simply identifying this select subset of employees indicates sophistication.

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My point was more that they didn't need to have access to some 0 day exploit to do this. There's been a lot of "conspiracy" type talk online that this was actually a 3 letter agency showing off their Twitter backdoor.

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