Twitter never fails to disappoint. Despite its best (?) Efforts, the platform remains the same riddled with bots, neonfriendly with azi cesspool that is full of the same harassment and hate we have come to expect that being said it may not be too surprising that the high profile Twitter hincident incident earlier this month you know the one that hit Kanye West and Barack ObamaAlong with a host of other big shots in the world of entertainment, technology and politics, they ended up being shit.show that the platform initially left.
in a thread fallen Wednesday night by the company’s official Support account, Twitter revealed that 36 of the 130 accounts caught up in the initial trick he ended up having his DMs accessed as a result. Included in those 36Evidently, he was an elected official in the Netherlands.
“To date, we have no indication that any other former or current elected official has had access to their DMs,” they added.
Although Twitter did not name names with this announcement, eventually, Dutch expert Geert Wilders, revealed his account was at the center of it all, saying that the hacker used that access to “Send direct messages in [his] name “, which is, as he put it, “Unacceptable”.
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In a way, it is a bit ironic that Wilders, of all people, has compromised his account in the Great Twitter Hack 2020. For years, his externally, Islamophobic views, business insights and obvious tinting work have earned him comparisons how a Dutch Donald Trump. And while his account was tapped into as part of last week’s events, Trump’s was strangely left intact, potentially due to reinforced protections Twitter uses to safeguard your account. If not, there is a good chance that OG Trump has fallen prey to the same scheme as his Dutch counterpart.
Regardless of how you feel The views (or hairstyles) of Wilders (or Trump), the trick raises a good argument for Twitter Finally adoend-to-end encryption pt on your messaging service which is something we’ve been begging for during years. In fact, the company have been toying with the idea since 2018 and had promised at least one senator that the company was “working on it.” Since then, social media analyst Matt Navarra has presented saying According to reports, sources within the company had archived the encryption idea in 2019, with no plans to dust it off any time soon.
Meanwhile, on a profit call today, CEO Jack Dorsey was strangely calm on the topic of encrypted chat, but did confirm that the company was working to add a subscription item, Saying that:
We want to make sure that any new line of income is complementary to our advertising business. We believe that there is a world where subscription is complementary, where commerce is complementary, where people are helped to manage payments […] We believe it is complementary.
Funny how “encrypted messaging” doesn’t seem to be completementory, even though multiple other platforms I’ve already solved that particular problem. I think I speak for everyone when I say that asking Tweeters to pay might not be the answer we’re looking for.
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