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CIA's Telegram Hijacked
- pbear2k23 3y agowas me if anyone wants details - but it's pretty simple. not a hack. registered an available username so that opposition ic groups couldn't do the same - they could have dressed it up in a visually identical way and intercepted western intel as a best case scenario. it's just an intelligence failure. those aren't new - nor is this really even that big of a deal - imo - it just could have hypothetically been a big deal - and i don't really care for hypotheticals video demo of the ethical-hijacking of the cia tg https://x.com/123456/status/1714496858754576516?s=20 https://x.com/123456/status/1714496858754576516?s=20
- laserstrahl 3y agoThat was on purpose!!111
- chriscappuccio 3y agoright, because so many people are typing in the incorrectly shortened URL instead of clicking on the link. something that happens to work nowhere on any page, that's what people are going to rely on to contact CIA. phew, they really dodged a bullet here because putin didn't figure this out first!
- pbear2k23 3y ago>right, because so many people are typing in the incorrectly shortened URL instead of clicking on the link it was clickable - and yes they dodged a bullet. the channel could have been perfectly reproduced, made to look real, and then used to intercept western intelligence. there was no manual "typing" of links
- jazzyjackson 3y ago> But a flaw in how X displays some links meant the full web address had been truncated to https://t.me/securelycont https://t.me/securelycont - an unused Telegram username. always click your links, folks, that's a pretty dumb glitch to truncate href as well as the displayed url. good looking out mr bear.