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Comment by blisseyGo

I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.

Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value:

Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMV

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23...

This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.

This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn't just a bitcoin scam.

parent blisseyGo 6 years ago

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