Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• elfpie@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let me spin that for you so you see the problem.

  Mastodon, the social network backed by terrorists. By signing up, you put your name on a FBI watchlist as well.

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair point.

    Redirect it to Blue Sky instead.

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  • fracture@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … can a brother get a source on this??

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    • elfpie@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wasn’t true. I wasn’t even trying to deceive anyone, but the problem is that people will mostly believe without asking for sources if they don’t care. I put an edit above now.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait what??

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    • elfpie@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My oopsie. Clarification above.

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• Alice@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If they can change the page to a message, then they probably have the access needed to redirect the URL.

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    • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh nvm, I wasn’t aware they’d done that. The article only talks about the outage.

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    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless they can edit DNS records, but that’s even harder to do.

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