The hacking incident is an episode, and the lower tolerance for extreme speech is the main theme of Twitter.

Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Geeks Park” (ID: geekpark), author Moonshot.

The hacking incident is an episode, and the lower tolerance for extreme speech is the main theme of Twitter.

On August 31, Twitter’s official account posted a message saying “We’ve noticed that @jack was attacked and is investigating the incident.”

@jack is the account of Jack Dorsey, the founder and current CEO of Twitter. Up to now, there are more than 4.2 million followers, local time, August 30, before 4 pm, within 15 minutes, @ Jack sent dozens of tweets in a row, including anti-Semitism, denial of the Nazi Holocaust, racial discrimination, and bomb threats to Twitter headquarters. At around 4:10, Twitter removed these tweets, which took about 10 minutes on Dorset’s Twitter.

Twitter founder is hacked, hacker retaliatoryly publishes hate speech

Tweets using @jack to send tweets | Twitter screenshots

In the tens of minutes of hacking @jack, @jack sent the tweet “#Chuckling Squad get it trending boys”, where “Chuckling Squad” is a hacker group, not just Dorsey, the recent Chuckling Squad is more Ten well-known Twitter accounts have been launched, including well-known YouTube bloggers and comedians. This attack on Dorsey is also suspected by Chuckling Squad.

Tweets sent by SMS

After an hour and a half after the incident, Twitter officially sent a tweet saying “@jack The account is now safe and there is no indication that the Twitter system has been compromised.”

After Twitter officially forwarded this tweet, added “The mobile phone number associated with the account was compromised due to security breaches by the mobile service provider.This allows unauthorized people to send tweets via SMS. This issue has now been resolved.

Twitter founder is hacked, hacker retaliatoryly publishes hate speech

Twist official statement | Twitter screenshot

Twitter’s service of “sending tweets via mobile phone” originated from Cloudhopper, a company previously acquired by Twitter for the provision of SMS-related Twitter services, which was transformed into Twitter in 2010. A service. As long as the mobile phone number is bound to the Twitter account, sending a text message to 404-04, the text message will be sent as a tweet to the user’s Twitter page, and the source of the tweet will display “Cloudhopper”, @jack hacked period The source of several tweets sent is Cloudhopper.

According to Twitter’s insiders, the BBC confirmed that the hacker used the “simswapping/simhacking” technology to control the @jack account. The principle is to transfer the phone number of the @jack binding to another SIM card. Twitter keeps relying on it. The ability to send tweets by SMS is partly due to the high traffic costs in some developing countries. Sending tweets by text messages is the usual way for the Chuckling Squad team to control other people’s accounts.

After the last time Chuckling Squad blackened into another person’s account, an AT&T spokesperson said, “We are working with law enforcement, customer service has been reinstated, and we have discussed ways to protect accounts.” But AT&T has not yet done so. The second event was commented.

According to The Verge, Chuckling Squad seems to have the means to fool AT&T. AT&T is the operator of Dorsey’s mobile phone card. Twitter’s official announcement has a “mobile service provider” that is safe and leaky. It refers to AT&T. .

Twitter will not comment on whether it will change security measures.

Retaliation for a long time

As early as 2016, Saudi Arabia’s hacker group, OurMine, had hacked into too many Western accounts and posted the tweet “Testing your security” with a link to the OurMine website, and the account was Also attacked by Google CEO Sanda Pachai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Three years ago, the hacking incident was more like hackers showing off technology, but this time the Dorsey account was fraudulently used, and more or less reflected on some ideas.

After the 2016 US presidential election, Twitter, as an influential social media, was not only involved in the “government” quagmire, but the platform also repeatedly broke the scandal of cyber bullying and fake news. Despite the controversy, Twitter often plays the role of a platform to defend the bottom line of freedom of speech. This also makes it a social platform outside the forum of gatherings of small extremists such as 8chan, and very few social platforms that can tolerate extreme speech. However, after 2016, the CEO who made Twitter come back to life, Dorsey, began to rectify account abuse and extreme speech on the Twitter platform.

According to the Associated Press data, Twitter cleared 58 million accounts in three months in the last quarter of 2017. By 2018, the number of accounts closed in May and June alone exceeded 70 million.

After 2018, when the whole platform collectively blocked conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, after Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify all blocked Alex Jones, Dorsey briefly said, “We don’t think he (Alex Jones) Violation of Twitter’s usage regulations.” Alex Jones also praised Dorsey’s insistence on freedom of speech.

Twitter founder is hacked, hacker retaliatoryly publishes hate speech

Dosi explains why Twitter didn’t block Alex Jones | Twitter screenshot

However, a month later, Twitter and its social video platform Periscope permanently banned Alex Jones and its website Infowars account.

At the congressional hearing in September 2018, Jack Dossi, who was summoned, stated that “free speech is used as a weapon and confuses. We admit that Twitter is not adequately prepared and is not fully armed.” , account abuse, harassment speech, cyber bullying, false information, split speech, this is not a healthy public space. We promise to be openly responsible for the progress of the active purification platform.”

In the process of Twitter being consciously “corrected,” Dorsey was clearly aware of the problems on the platform. He was not only a few cakes of extremists, but was trying to push them out of the public eye. So the extremists hacked into his account, made extreme remarks, and succeeded in attracting everyone’s attention. This timeThey succeeded, but the final result will not change because of this episode.