Don Jr. Sparks Chaos With Apparent Twitter Hack Announcing Trump Death — Read the Now-Deleted Posts
Don Jr. Sparks Chaos With Apparent Twitter Hack Announcing Trump Death — Read the Now-Deleted Posts
Former President Trump did not just pass away, despite his son's social media feed revealing as much. It appears Don Jr.'s X/Twitter account was hacked.
I apologize for the absolutely horrible headline, but the deleted posts are worth it.
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This makes me wonder if team Trump isn't preemptively muddying the waters for pending news of Trump's inevitable death. I wonder if Trump got a prognosis recently and this is just a type of staw poll taken about how ready and willing the GOP would accept a replacement name on the ticket.
I think it was just a Twitter hack.
Both Occam's and Hanlon's razor agree on this one, it was almost certainly just a hack. Bet Don Jr. had a password like Trump2024 or something equally dumb, or he got his account phished, he doesn't strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed.
And to add to matters, Musk has fired so much staff that I bet that Twitter's security has suffered. If your staff can barely keep the servers running while implementing the latest "cool new feature" that the boss insisted be made immediately and pushed live with zero testing, they're not going to be focused on maintaining server and application security.
(Source: I've been a web developer for over 25 years.)
I doubt it's a flaw in Twitter's security, if it was it would be more than just 1 account posting dumb content (well, dumber content than normal). There's also the fact that that particular code was probably done and battle tested ages ago, so unless someone went in and screwed with it it should keep working more or less fine and I don't think any of Muskrats recent changes would have touched the auth sections of the code. If this was like a DoS or the site was down or something then I'd bet it was some security flaw that was introduced, but this doesn't smell like E.G. a SQL injection or anything like that.