Apparently the issue is this exploit involved reassigning the email address associated with the accounts and resetting the password, so it wasn't long term undetectable You couldn't get into the account without the real owner being locked out, giving yourself away
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So there's a strict time limit on doing whatever you were gonna do with your access, especially given that they were targeting people who were famous and connected Spying on their DMs for a month wasn't an option
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The Bitcoin scam really is the easiest way to just grab a lot of money off of this and disappear without leaving traces You could've made more by putting a big short on Amazon and having Jeff Bezos announce his retirement but it would've been way way riskier
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The way I see it - you're going to get caught within a day after the first time you do this and the exploit will be patched So when you do it, you might as well blow your cover in a way that makes you a lot of money at once, hence the Bitcoin scam
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Other, subtler stuff, like trawling through everyone's archived DMs for blackmail material, will have to be saved for later I think we probably can expect some fallout in months to come
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If Trump’s account had announced “I resign as President” during this hacking period, could he take it back? I suppose so, but it is an official statement.
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I think they generally want that kind of thing on paper
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I don’t think it was misdirection. It was the best use of what they had. Anything else would have possibly allowed for more tracing OR might not have worked at all. This was absolutely the best option to make a stack of cash and get away clean
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Or worse... an audition.
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They could have shorted Tesla stock and then tanked it
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