Is this Twitter hack a dry run before the election in the Fall?

[Yavin4]

You know get a sense of Twitter's security measures and counter measures to prepare for future hacks?

Please tell me that I being a paranoid, conspiracy theorist. Please tell me that I am crazy. That I should calm down and relax.



Background:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html

[Nevilledog]

1. I'm too paranoid to tell you that you shouldn't be paranoid.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Putin's winning.

US is losing.
Trump is colluding.

[triron]

7. Conspiring.

[Mr. Ected]

3. How could you even think about calming down and relaxing

When you just scared the shit out of a thousand of us who hadn't already considered that very tenable possibility?

[FM123]

4. The repugs are always projecting their evil ways on to us

so when that psycho Matt Gaetz was yelling that big tech was going to steal the election away from trump, I did raise an eyebrow....

[qazplm135]

5. no its a current run

to scam people out of money.

[Yavin4]

6. But they've established that Twitter is vulnerable on a high level.

What about other levels? Instead of tweets from famous people asking for bitcoin money, what about tweets from regular people spreading false information about Biden.

[qazplm135]

10. why do you need to hack anyone

to spread false information on twitter? Just open up a twitter account.

[Music Man]

13. I think the point is that this issue has revealed potential security issues for the fall.

Someone could hack Joe Biden's account and post something truly vile in his name. And it can spread like wildfire before they have the chance to correct or explain it.

[qazplm135]

14. come on

no one is going to believe that.

People are way too busy looking for ways we can lose. They need to stop being so afraid.

[fleur-de-lisa]

17. Exactly.

[groundloop]

8. I bet they can't hack MY twitter account.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Not really. Greed trumps it. GOPutin wouldn't tip its hand in this way. . . . nt

[stillcool]

11. I think if you're alive, you have to be paranoid...

and a conspiracy theorist extraordinaire....just to keep up. That said, you should calm down and relax whenever possible. There are plenty more paranoid conspiracy theorists to pick up the slack.

[sarisataka]

12. You are being a paranoid, conspiracy theorist.

You are crazy. You should should calm down and relax.

Now that we have that out of the way, this was not any sort of dry run. If you are going to do a dry run preparing for the election you will hack in to some no name schmuck who will probably never notice that strange messages went out from his Twitter.

You would save hacking big name high profile people for the actual run rather than tipping your hand so early as to give time for security to be improved.

[msongs]

15. it matters NOTHING if twitter is hacked. just less rumor and fake news nt

[HipChick]

16. I'd bet a lot of these 'hacks' come from

inside..