Why It’s Frightening That Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Account Was Hacked

It was recently announced that the Twitter account of CEO Jack Dorsey was compromised by a gang of misfits who broke the rules of a distribution platform called Discord, that allows users to freely indulge in the “text-to-tweet,” special with the expectation that mayhem won’t be part of the menu.

It’s been alleged that Dorsey’s account was under siege for less than 15 minutes before it was restored to its former glory.

As it turns out, getting a hold of the direct phone number belonging to one of the most powerful men in the world isn’t nearly as difficult as it may seem.

The hackers were able to rely on the brilliance of SIM hacking which is ridiculously easy if you possess the sheer determination to convince phone carriers to reassign a phone number under the name of one of the kings of Silicon Valley, to a new device.

You don’t need to be a mad scientist to fully comprehend how truly fucked we are as users of a platform that’s being managed by a bunch of idiots, who aren’t even savvy enough to prevent the most basic invasions that most rookies can detect before the very worst happens.

What happened to Dorsey’s account after it was overrun with the generic attack mode of racially offensive content definitely signals the direness…