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by pbear2k23 974 days ago
was 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