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blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

Many people have auto-sell / buy triggers set up when something drops below a value.

blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

That's not true. Many people have auto-sell / buy triggers set up when something drops below a value.

blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

While I am 10000% onboard with decentralizing communication, I am not sure if that would help in cases like this though. Back in 2013, only a single news outlet AP's twitter was hacked and had similar consequences. Decentralizing wouldn't have helped there I think.

blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

I agree. I have been following the rule of not trusting any such significant news for 48 hours and sometimes even a week because often, news gets debunked or more info comes out.

blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

I don't think this is new though. The same thing happens on the radio too - and radio can be hacked too.

blisseyGoon Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.

Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value:

Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23...

This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.

This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn't just a bitcoin scam.

blisseyGoon U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”

Top athletes, celebrities from Hollywood etc all virtue signal while ignoring the problems going on in China and are willing to sell out to China. Since the COVID, China has been blatantly racist towards blacks and the US embassy had to notify people about the "Discrimination against African-Americans". Yet this got ZERO attention:

> China McDonald's apologises for Guangzhou ban on black people

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52274326

https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/health-alert-u-s-consul...

> In response to an increase in COVID-19 infections, officials in the Guangzhou metropolitan area escalated scrutiny of foreign nationals. As part of this campaign, police ordered bars and restaurants not to serve clients who appear to be of African origin. Moreover, local officials launched a round of mandatory tests for COVID-19, followed by mandatory self-quarantine, for anyone with “African contacts,” regardless of recent travel history or previous quarantine completion. African-Americans have also reported that some businesses and hotels refuse to do business with them. The U.S. Consulate General advises African-Americans or those who believe Chinese officials may suspect them of having contact with nationals of African countries to avoid the Guangzhou metropolitan area until further notice. Without advance warning, officials might require such individuals to submit to a COVID-19 test and undergo 14 days of supervised quarantine at their own expense.

> All U.S. citizens in China are subject to local law. If you violate Chinese laws, even unknowingly, you may be arrested, expelled, or imprisoned. The Chinese legal system can be opaque, and the interpretation and enforcement of local laws may be arbitrary. The judiciary does not enjoy independence from political influence. U.S. citizens traveling or residing in China may be subject to heightened scrutiny by Chinese local law enforcement and state security. They should carry identity documents at all times.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

I am really doubtful they were able to change the email and phone of so many celebrities and powerful people at the same time by phone. Twitter stated "social engineering" but I don't think this was for changing emails and phones of each person one by one.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Fair point. I still want to know how it happened and how the employee who's got to have very high level permissions managed to give access to the entire system including change user email and phone numbers.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Could this be related to the Executive Order POTUS signed yesterday on Hong Kong Normalization?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidents-e...

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

This reminds me of 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value:

Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23...

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Was this for verified users only? Or is that only verified users were targeted?

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Very strange. Why exactly is it possible for any employee to tweet as any user? Unless the person who was targeted was the Database admin himself or something.

Even then, how tech illiterate is this employee with such high permissions to fall for a social engineering attack? I would like to know what this employee's role was in the company.

Also who did the social engineering?

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

On a serious note, does that 4000+ employees include the content moderators? If yes, then I can see why. If not, then I am not sure what that many employees is for.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

1. Most want cheap foreign labour via H1b Visas which is currently more of a democrat thing (it's republican thing too but Trump is avoiding that right now). They claim they like diversity but it's actually just importing H1B visas who basically get exploited by the companies because if they don't over perform, then they don't get promoted and therefore get fired leading them to get deported back. This is also why these companies have the "get promoted every 1-2 years or you are fired".

2. Most don't publicly support GOP because they don't want to get cancelled.

PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION: Preference falsification is the act of misrepresenting one’s wants under perceived social pressures.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

What timezone is "tomorrow"? Did this happen at midnight for some timezone?

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/labs/overview/whats-ne...

I don't see any depreciations happening which could result in today's hack. Though I could be wrong.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

From here:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/labs/overview/whats-ne...

I don't see any depreciations from today/tomorrow which would be related to what happened.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Tweet from TwitterDev team yesterday:

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283068902331817990

> 2 days to go… #TwitterAPI

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283433096780677122

> Thank you to all of you who have engaged with us and shared your feedback. Your input has been vital, and we’re committed to continuing these conversations with you. There’s so much more we’re doing to build a better #TwitterAPI… and Early Access is coming tomorrow!

Were they supposed to launch some new API tomorrow which got hacked?

blisseyGoon Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

It's been at least 3 years and they still haven't made a fix for the spam comments until Elon Musk's tweets for crypto scam from user account names of "Elon_Musk" or others. This should be such an easy way to block. Don't even allow new user accounts with "Elon" and "Musk" in it unless verified. I have been seeing this for over 3 years and no fix.

blisseyGoon Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

I read somewhere that they hacked it multiple times. The first tweet got taken down and then it got posted again.

blisseyGoon Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

This could also impact the stock market I think.

blisseyGoon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Strange coincidence tweet by Jack Dorsey from last evening:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1283169859233214465

> #bitcoin @BubbaWallace

blisseyGoon Resignation Letter

She's the one who labels people without knowing what those labels mean. She labeled Tulsi Gabbard with something she didn't even know what the word meant while on JRE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpurFfcSNfU

https://youtu.be/I-0lfxHoF5I

If she's not left enough for NYT, then I don't know what is.

blisseyGoon Trump Admin launch FindSomethingNew campaign about job train and opportunities

> this seems incredibly tone deaf

How?

blisseyGoon Trump Admin launch FindSomethingNew campaign about job train and opportunities

This seems related to the executive order from couple weeks ago on skill based hiring instead of degree based hiring:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/why-we-need-new-trump-execut...

blisseyGoon Moderna says COVID vaccine trial produced robust immune response in all patients

> Moderna’s potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19 produced neutralizing antibodies in all 45 patients in its early stage human trial, according to newly released data.

> Earlier Tuesday, Moderna announced it would begin its late-stage trial for its vaccine on July 27. The trial will enroll 30,000 participants across 87 locations, according to ClinicalTrials.gov. Participants in the experimental arm will receive a 100 microgram dose of the potential vaccine on the first day and another 29 days later. Some patients will also receive a placebo.

Looks promising.

blisseyGoon Resignation Letter

> "Rooting people out to be more inclusive" - Paging George Orwell

As someone who had to create this second account because I feared stating my politics on my mail account which linked to my work would get me cancelled, I can sympathize with her a bit.

However, I also think she's herself played part in creating the very culture she's complaining about. She claimed to be a "conservative" but she's far from that. Listening her on the Joe Rogan Podcast, she's a liberal on majority of the issues. She seems to be masquerading as a "conservative" imo.

Kind of reminds me of how Tulsi Gabbard was cancelled by the left, the media, censored by Google and smeared by Hillary as a "Russian asset". That's only when Tulsi complained. She never complained when conservatives had been screaming about censorship, media bias and "russian asset" smears for the past 5 years. Seems like people only wake up when the mob comes for their own head.

blisseyGoon Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

I am actually curious how they got that TLD. When I try it on namecheap, it says Unsupported TLD:

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

blisseyGoon California imposing sweeping rollback of reopening plans amid case surges

How is it half related? The first study I cited states:

> There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure.

I cited multiple studies. No idea where your "bunch of half related studies" is coming from. Your comment comes off as condescending.