Well, the first thing they did after hacking twitter, was to scam people with that tired old "Bill Gates/Elon Musk" whatever give me your bitcoins and i double them for you garbage. People, foolishly enough, gave the scammer about 14 bitcoins. Such is the level of stupidity.
I would have recognized the scam miles away, just how long has that stupid scam been going on youtube? And yet, people fall for it, proof that the scammers do in fact have reason to invest resources in perpetrating their crime.
You think if i saw the same tired old stupid scam we have known for ages was people impersonating, say, Elon Musk, coming from, oh, the Elon Musk official twitter account, you think i would still fall for it? Hell no. The sole point of give me coin so i can make you more is flawed to begin with.
Ah well enough ranting about human stupidity. What was Einstein quote again?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
Now why people EVEN use Twitter? There is Mastodon like for ages. Free and Open Source software. OK, this applies to the previous Whatsapp outage as well, its not like its the first time, nor the last one. But the social networks are, unfortunately, social. How to convince the others to switch to the safer alternatives? They need to keep kicked again and again and again and they still won't get it.
Or that Zoom scandal, why, Jitsi has been there for ages too. Oh but we know Zoom, not Jitsi, because Jitsi must be too hard to remember or something.
There is also the fools that don't use good passwords, or that don't use different passwords on each site. Too many sites you say? Duh, use a password manager. Let me explain what a password manager is, since there is some STUPID misconception (like some have about Bitcoin wallets). It is NOT an online site, it is a program (preferably Free and Open Source) you download to your computer, its a database of passwords which happens to be encrypted and protected with its own password as well. You can generate random passwords for all your sites, never repeating one, never using simple easy to guess passwords: all random, all different. Then you copy and paste from it to the web sites, and some even have browser integration (also, browsers are garbage for that, don't let those ever save any passwords on their own).
It is an unfortunate side effect of the era, when most people online lack proper computer knowledge. To be blunt: the fools got online when they made it "too easy" to get online (ie. Smartphones, etc). And that, is precisely what the crooks fish for. Heck i even met clueless bitcoin miners, and we have seen people in this forum lose thousands and even million of dollars doing stupid things, such as keeping all your wallets in a smartphone you use everyday...
What else can i say? This is not the end, sadly. People will keep using Twitter, etc and keep making the stupid mistakes that makes it so easy for crooks to steal their money.
Are you still using Windows to browse things online? Shame on you, don't say we didn't warn you and later come crying a river, you were told to switch to Linux. It may be not perfect security, but its a giant step in the right direction. Securing windows is a pointless excercise in futility, and I'm not even in the mood to explain you why, for the gazillionth time. Get a clue and search for yourself.
1. Who do you think is responsible for the hack?
2. Why do you think they chose to execute this old scam for the hack?
3. What do you think will be the impact on Bitcoin and Twitter?
- The double your bitcoin scammers.
- Because that was their goal, this may have been a contract paid in the "dark" net.
- Not much, really. Bitcoin has nothing to do with it, Twitter may get some flak, but probably be forgotten.
In case you didn't notice, they actually "collected". So was their "investment" (paying the h4xx0rs) worth it? Seems so... Turbulent times ahead, too many fools online.
