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That's what happens when you fire all your security people, Musk. You fucking idiot.
Now that I think about it, I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner.
Formerly the Twitter
Okay this looks big as far as data, but is there any information here that isnt (wasnt) already public? This looks like profile information. Isnt all this already available?
Real name and email associated with twitter account, which aren't always outwardly exposed. They would be considered PII.
this seems like what happened in 2021. Whoever wrote this article apparently got excited and didn't verify its authenticity.
That's unimportant. All that matters is that we hate Elon Musk and never stop talking about him
The breach, sourced from a Twitter (X) database or scrape...
The fact that they don't specify, and that it's names, usernames, and email addresses, means this could all be public data.
This is why i'm waiting for further coverage.
Is 9GB alot? That seems microscopic to me. I suppose it depends on the nature of the data?
Well, text is very very small. Make a Notepad doc with your username, phone number, email and your data you'd put on a social media and check the weight and then divide 9GB by it!
Back in the day one had to pay good money for that training data. Now the data frees itself.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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