Hackers took over the accounts Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Barrack Obama, Kanye West etc. and begged for bitcoins.
https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/…tcoin-scam
Twitter has internal controls that Jack Dorsey denied existed under oath:
Yeah. As fun as some of it was, I think what that article talks about was definitely in the back of my mind. Along with deepfakes, this stuff is scary as shit. And considering corporations outright refusal to hold anyone accountable for nearly anything, it’s not that hard to see someone using twitter to straight up start a war.
Yep. The Verge article summed up my initial thoughts when accounts I follow started tweeting about Bitcoins. I thought it was funny until I saw Joe Biden’s post and it really struck me as bad.
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Gosh could you imagine if crazy tweets came from the PRESIDENT?!?!
Dorsey is accountable.
Apparently at least one Twitter-employee secretly aided the scheme from the inside, according to what NBC News was reporting this morning.
This is usually what they mean by a “social engineering hack.” It sounds more scientific and at the the same time more nebulous than “LOL no one should have this much of the world’s personal data.”
It’s basically a Star Trek writing trick. Nobody’s at fault, it was an inverse tachyon beam fired from the secondary deflector dish. Could have happened to anyone.
I’m just blown away that people fell for it. I mean, with the Nigerian prince thing, you can blame it on 70 year old grandmas.
But Bitcoin? You would figure people would know a scam when they–
Oh…right.
I don’t know how cognitive dissonance doesn’t hit you like a brick wall when you see the tweet from Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, stating that they’ve “decided to start giving back.” These are people who wake up every morning with the ability to stop world hunger and choose not to.
On an unrelated note, I experienced my first Twitter pile-on today. I don’t use the service for much outside of news aggregation, so I don’t have many followers and only follow a handful of people. I made the mistake of engaging someone whose profile seemed somewhat normal. They asked how many people knew people who had died or had been hospitalized by COVID, and I responded politely by saying three of my students’ families had members who had been hospitalized with one currently in the ER. The responses to my post were possibly the most childish and vile i could have ever imagined. “Fuck you, bot.” “Fake troll cunt.” “7 followers? Are you even alive?”
And many more that were far worse. I know I probably sound naive, but it kind of drove the point home that humanity might not have been ready to play with this particular toy. Time to throw the switch.
Hmmm how do we know you aren’t a bot even now? PROVE YOUR HUMANITY!
What’s crazy is, try having 0 followers, and you’ll never feel more alive.
Good time to bring this thread back.
All I’m gonna say is that Musk disgusts and offends me on a Trumpian level, not for his shitty practices but for trying to exploit his Asperger’s diagnosis. I truly don’t understand why he is who he is beyond being born with an emerald spoon up his ass.
I don’t use Twitter, it’s gonna get worse, and I want to be Swanberg and him to be Faraci and I throw The Glaive at Tesla HQ.
I think the easy answer as to why Musk is the way he is that he’s a rich fuck who has always been a rich fuck.
You have no idea how bad I want to feel The Quickening against this motherfucker.
Remember when he wanted to nuke Mars to make it “liveable”? He’s a fucking rich idiot manchild.
I’m pretty sure Michael Ironside would kill him after a few weeks if he ever tried to control Mars.
Maybe with EM trying to buy Twit, he will overextend his businesses and take down Twitter, Tesla and every other business he’s involved in…so, good?
He wasn’t wrong in naming his company The Boring Company, because I’ve never found him to be particularly interesting. That said, let’s look at some of his amazing inventions!
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He “invented” luxury electric cars for wealthy Republican assholes who couldn’t care less about the environment. Oh, and the cars require batteries that necessitate a shitload of mining for previous minerals, so Teslas actually have a net negative effect on the environment. They also explode sometimes, and their automatic braking system was apparently built by ACME.
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He “invented” a subway tunnel for Teslas in Vegas, so drivers can circumvent street traffic by getting stuck in a slow-moving underground logjam instead.
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Oh, and he also “invented” talking about going to Mars but never going to Mars.
Dude’s a fraud. He’ll turn Twitter into 8chan because he’s a perpetual adolescent who doesn’t really invent shit. He’s just celebrated for being so obnoxiously mediocre.