A Twitter insider was responsible for a wave of high profile account takeovers on Wednesday, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Motherboard and two sources who took over accounts. On Wednesday, a spike of high profile accounts including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Uber, and Apple tweeted cryptocurrency scams in an apparent hack. "We used a rep that literally done all the work for us," one of the sources told Motherboard. The second source added they paid the Twitter insider. [...] The panel is a stark example of the issue of insider data access at tech companies. Whereas in other cases hackers have bribed workers to leverage tools over individual users, in this case the access has led to takeovers of some of the biggest accounts on the social media platform and tweeted bitcoin related scams in an effort to generate income. Continua, con frasi di circostanza da Twitter che però censura chi ne evidenzia i problemi sulla sua piattaforma, su https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-accou... D'altronde, già durante l'attacco sembrava piuttosto ovvio un insider. https://twitter.com/giacomotesio/status/1283519269741920257 Gli hacker, questa volta, hanno voluto farsi notare. E le altre? ;-) La copia dei dati non lascia traccia... Illudersi che la firma di un contratto possa proteggere veramente libertà e democrazia è piuttosto ingenuo. L'unico "privacy shield" efficace nel mondo reale è il controllo fisico e competente dell'hardware che detiene ed elabora i dati degli utenti. Giacomo