{"id":176312,"date":"2020-07-15T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/15\/donald-trump-must-have-lost-his-mind\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:44:00","slug":"donald-trump-must-have-lost-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/15\/donald-trump-must-have-lost-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Must Have Lost His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4GQKrmR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4GQKrmR.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Clearly, Nigerian princes were involved<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jul\/15\/twitter-elon-musk-joe-biden-hacked-bitcoin\">verified accounts were compromised<\/a>, resulting in all of these accounts (Blue Checkmark) being suspended for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Donald Trump could not Tweet during this time.<\/p>\n<p>I rather imagine that his was exploding over this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Twitter suffered a major security breach on  Wednesday that saw hackers take control of the accounts of major public  figures and corporations, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk,  Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Apple. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The company <a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/1283518038445223936\">confirmed<\/a>  the breach Wednesday evening, more than six hours after the hack began,  and attributed it to a \u201ccoordinated social engineering attack\u201d on its  own employees that enabled the hackers to access \u201cinternal systems and  tools\u201d. Twitter said it was \u201clooking into what other malicious activity  they may have conducted or information they may have accessed\u201d in  addition to using the compromised accounts to send tweets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The company subsequently warned that some users would be unable to tweet or change their passwords as it worked to address the issue. Verified users, whose accounts feature a blue checkmark to denote that Twitter has confirmed their identities, were blocked from tweeting for about an hour.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh the humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearly, Nigerian princes were involved Twitter&#8217;s verified accounts were compromised, resulting in all of these accounts (Blue Checkmark) being suspended for about an hour. This means that Donald Trump could not Tweet during this time. I rather imagine that his was exploding over this. Twitter suffered a major security breach on Wednesday that saw hackers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,665,367,382],"class_list":["post-176312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-hacking","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}