[ghobs91]

If it's this easy to hack Trump's Twitter account and say things that could trigger war, maybe we need to reconsider allowing elected officials to use social media as their official communications channel. Instead, they should have a government run portal where they relay whatever info they need to.

[paulddraper]

I think this comment just as far overexaggerated as when you made it one minute earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20842357

[lekevicius]

I'd wager that government-run portals might be even easier to hack.

Regardless of that, separating "official communications" from "personal" would be really tricky. Which tweets would come as "the current president" and which as "the candidate up for re-election"?

In addition to that, there are actually separate accounts (official @POTUS / personal @realDonaldTrump) but Trump-the-person has no incentive to ever use the official account (it's not "his") and so all @POTUS account does is just retweet the personal account, sort of defeating the purpose.

[paulpauper]

look at Equifax for example: huge organization yet undone by very elementary errors

[smitty1e]

How, precisely, does a 280 character payload trigger war?

Is UTF-8 just so much U-238 in drag?

If someone is starting a war, than any tweet is fungible with another.

[mattchamb]

What if a world leader said something along the lines of.. "Just ordered a strike xxxcountry. This is war."

That would probably trigger war.