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The Fed. I'm seeing somebody say "End the Fed." Well, I'd be in favor of that if I knew what it was. Anybody know what the Federal Reserve does? I managed to get a degree in economics and walk away thinking I'm not entirely sure what they do. Well, anyway, let's talk about some of the things in the news.
I was seeing a tweet from Adam Townsend. He was sending people to his blog. Now Adam Townsend is another strong follow on Twitter. If you're not following him, you're missing a lot of different stuff. There are some people on Twitter who tend to be boosters of things you've already seen, and they're good too. But Adam tends to have completely different takes on stuff. But in this case I think this is something some of us saw but forgot.
In 2020 there was a hack on Twitter. I kind of vaguely remember that. But here's a detail I did not know until I read Adam Townsend's blog that he tweeted at today. So apparently Twitter was hacked by a 17-year-old and some friends. The 17-year-old. And if you wondered how did he crack the security for Twitter, because you know Twitter's a major social platform, obviously they've got some pretty strong security going on there. So here's how the 17-year-old did it. He called some Twitter employees and said he was Twitter IT support, and they asked him for their passwords.
That's not even the best part. That's not even the best part. Some of them actually gave their passwords over the phone. For real, that's not the best part. That's not the best part either. The best part is that average employees, you know, just I think they're just average
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employees, gave their passwords, and that was enough to acquire god mode over the entire network. Apparently if you had anybody's password if they were in engineering, they gave you god mode over the entire network. Now if you don't believe that's true, apparently there is testimony from somebody who was hired to look into the security. He testified to Congress. This guy named Mudge was his nickn…
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