Donald Trump's Twitter Account Is A Security Disaster Waiting To Happen

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:38 PM
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Donald Trump's Twitter Account Is A Security Disaster
Waiting To Happen
To: <nnsquad () nnsquad org>




Donald Trump's Twitter Account Is A Security Disaster Waiting To Happen



https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/donald-trumps-twitter-account-is-a-security-disaster-waiting?utm_term=.jbj22Q3K3#.gh944d3v3



        The most powerful publication in the world today is Donald

        Trump's personal Twitter account. In the past six weeks, it

        has moved markets, conducted shadow foreign policy, and

        reshaped the focus of media around the world. Just today, it

        caused Toyota's stock to drop. It is also shockingly insecure.

        That insecurity was acceptable when @realDonaldTrump concerned

        itself with Kristen Stewart cheating on Robert Pattinson and

        how thin people don't drink Diet Coke. And yet Trump's

        newfound influence -- combined with the unpredictability of

        his tweets -- makes the president-elect's account a

        particularly tempting target for hackers.  That's especially

        true because there is a large fortune that could be made in a

        single 140-character message.  If someone were able to gain

        access to Trump's Twitter, they could tweet approvingly or

        disapprovingly about a company (as Trump has done) and play

        the stock market accordingly -- or cause others to do so. A

        market-tracking app called Trigger has already set up an alert

        that responds whenever Trump tweets about publicly traded

        companies.



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Twitter should shut his account down. Donald Dump has violated their

Terms of Service numerous times in ways that would have caused

ordinary users to be banned. The security risks are just too high to

keep it open. Twitter must shut it down now, to protect Dump from

himself, Twitter from him, and the rest of the world from a disaster.



--Lauren--

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