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US Central Command Twitter hacked
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juanm
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There are worse things to hack than a twitter account. I'd suggest you watch John Oliver's segment about lax security around nuclear weapons. Frightening.
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Being Twitter, am I right in thinking that crappy security is a rubbish password?
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Totally agree, which is why I'm intrigued that they managed to hack the Twitter account of such a high profile, high security department.
Also, how come a bunch of terrorists manage to do this at all?!
It's Twitter. I hardly think Central Command is using it for national security communication. And they don't control security of Twitter.
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Well, of course not! But it's embarrassing nonetheless. So, is the answer to my original question simply that the administrators of the account had a rubbish password that allowed the hackers to just guess away?
password
twitterpassword
twitterlogin
centralcommand
twtrpswrd
etc etc etc until they got it right?
JamesMike
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When I first got a computer in Africa, my PLO and Syrian computer techs told me small case, large case, signs, ie. #$% and mix them up, it seems to work.