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How Activist DeRay Mckesson's Twitter Account Was Hacked
Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most recent victim of a high-profile Twitter account hack. Mckesson this week started to endorse for Donald Trump and posted a self-defamatory tweet. Later he announced that his account was hacked. What's interesting about this hack was that Mckesson had two-factor authentication enabled on "all" of his accounts. Hackers apparently resorted to a much-sophisticated attack: Hacker or hackers were able to take over by convincing Verizon to reset his SIM. With the SIM reset, the person responsible was able to receive text messages intended for Mckesson and therefore bypass the two-factor authentication the activist used to keep his account secure.
Is this — his being a "Racial Justice Activist" — the best way to describe a person? The supposed profession seems straight out of the Onion's polls — along with other gems like "Grammar Innovator" and "Cactus Purchaser".
Seriously, has he done something more profound in his life than raising awareness and, if he did, why is not that mentioned in the write-up instead?
Well, at least now I have heard of the guy — the hack and /. have achieved for him, what his "activity" itself was never able to...
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