Well,
Here is the text version:
1/ Here is a description of what went down according to someone with far greater technical knowledge than me:
"so a group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. In that Press Release, Twilio
Well,
deliver content -- ALL CONTENT (parleys, video, images, user profiles, user information, etc) -. But what it also did was revealed which USERS had "Administration" rights,
Well, then what happened, those user accounts that had Administration rights to the entire platform... The hackers, internet warriors, call it what you will, was able to use the forgot password link to change the password. Why? Because Twilio was no
This group of Internet Warriors then used that account, to create a handful of other ADMINISTRATION accounts, and then created a script that ended up
Now that they had a way of creating admin accounts without interruption, they created a Docker Image (basically a virtual machine) called a Warrior, that anyone could download, and when fired up, would immediately start
Consider it like SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) that people used to load up as screen savers when their computers were not being used. Same concept, crowdsourcing.
All of this data, the videos,
And the kicker. is this: all of this information was thought to be secure and private by individuals who were making the posts. A significant number of those
It means they uploaded a picture of the front and back of their REAL State Driver's License....... Let that sink in for a second.
I am positive the FBI has been actively
And it's how the FBI, DHS, and FAA have been able to immediately and exhaustively create no-fly lists. Every verified attendee of the Capitol riot where
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