The Constant Risk of a Consolidated Internet
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet/614593
A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should. Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama were all feeling generous on the evening of July 16, according to their Twitter accounts, which offered to double any payments sent to them in bitcoin. Not really, of course ; they’d been hacked. Or, rather, Twitter itself had been hacked, and for apparently stupid reasons : The perpetrators stole and resold Twitter accounts and impersonated high-follower users to try to (...)
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