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		throwaway43234 on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in si... Its not hard to believe that a group with the ability to hijack the twitter accounts of some of the world's most influential people could also hijack the "posted by" metadata.

lhoff on July 15, 2020 [–]

I guess the previous post was seen as a argument against compromised API keys.

throwaway43234 on July 15, 2020 | [–]

right, it's not only compromised API keys, but it could be that with something else.

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