https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283068902331817990
> 2 days to go… #TwitterAPI
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1283433096780677122
> Thank you to all of you who have engaged with us and shared your feedback. Your input has been vital, and we’re committed to continuing these conversations with you. There’s so much more we’re doing to build a better #TwitterAPI… and Early Access is coming tomorrow!
Were they supposed to launch some new API tomorrow which got hacked?
Working from home of course always leaves open the question if a person was willingly participating in a crime or was forced at gunpoint.
However, in this case, looks like Twitter's internal tools simply give too much access to people to control access to Twitter accounts. Probably no gunpoint required, just a single compromised employee. It remains to be seen how willingly they have participated.
Stock markets or fiat currencies on the other hand require quite a bit of work upfront to set up an account before you can trade.
I don't see any depreciations happening which could result in today's hack. Though I could be wrong.
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/labs/overview/whats-ne...
I don't see any depreciations from today/tomorrow which would be related to what happened.
DMs are almost worthless; who uses DMs for anything important? It's for contacting people you kinda know but not really. State secrets aren't transitted over DM, but not because people wouldn't be stupid enough to do it. the people holding them are much older than the demographic that uses Twitter DMs. Worst case with DMs is some new YouTuber drama would be exposed.
Edit: looks like an admin panel was the culprit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23853786
Tweeting on behalf of another user seems like an unnecessary feature to give admins.
To be fair though, this was not for a social network, and even if you broke into that account there wasn't much you could do beyond paying the user's bills.
