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Joe Tidy BBC News
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Cyber Correspondent at BBC News. Not posting here much. Find me on bsky.app/profile/joetid…
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    Joe Tidy BBC News
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    Nov 21, 2024
    Partly because of this story and many others like it, I'm not going to post much on Twitter anymore. I'll be on Bluesky and Threads. Still on here for DMs etc.
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    Nov 21, 2024
    In case you needed any reminding of how much Twitter's 'verification' system has changed, see this from Fahima Abdulrahman and myself: bbc.com/arabic/article…
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    Apr 24, 2024
    I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend.
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    Apr 25, 2024
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    This lovely old lady is like a walking Millennium Bug just casing havoc where she goes with her computer-befuddling age. What a hero.
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    Apr 24, 2024
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    It gets better! Her daughter tells me this is the second time a computer has failed to believe her mum’s 1922 date of birth. Earlier on their connecting flight the crew didn’t come and help them off the plane with a wheelchair as the records showed she would be a babe in arms 🙃
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    Sep 11, 2020
    Congratulations to the two lads who sneakily ruined my best piece to camera from a recent filming assignment in Germany. Honestly I’m not even mad, this is inspired. Didn’t even spot it until in the edit. 👏 👏 👏 😂
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    Mar 20, 2022
    NEW: Anonymous: How hackers are trying to undermine Putin. I spoke directly to 5 of the main Anon groups about their ‘cyber war’ on Putin and why they are escalating their attacks in the coming days.
    A member of the Squad 303/Anonymous hacker group
    Anonymous: How hackers are trying to undermine Putin
    From bbc.co.uk
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    Jun 25, 2024
    It's incredible that AI systems built largely by young men are getting really good at drawing beautiful women. But struggling with basics like fire safety.
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    Aug 27, 2017
    Well that was predictable... #reporting #carnival2017 IT'S NOT EVEN 9AM!!!!
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    Mar 20, 2022
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    This video shows probably the most eye-catching thing Anonymous has done so far - a 'broadcast signal intrusion' on Russian TV. Almost all channels were made to play Ukraine war footage. I was sceptical it happened but spoke to the original source of the video and confirmed it.
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    Apr 30, 2024
    BREAK: Julius Kivimaki AKA Zeekill sentenced to 6 years & 3 months in prison after hacking and blackmailing 30,000 therapy patients with their stolen notes. One of the cruellest cyber attacks ever. Zeekill's imprisonment ends a near 10 year cyber crime spree started as a teen.
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    Jan 19, 2024
    Interesting day in Finland. #vastaamo
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    Jun 14, 2017
    Inside the largest and closest mosque to the Grenfell Tower. What a response. Some people have driven down from Leicester to help.
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    Oct 31, 2024
    I’m at a London event billed as the ‘unveiling of the true legal identity of Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto’. An odd set up to the press conference as the organiser asked me to pay £500 to attend and appear on stage to ask questions of the billionaire mystery man.
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    Aug 30, 2018
    Jennifer Lawrence nude photo hacker jailed for eight months. George Garofano accessed 200 iCloud accounts with a phishing attack.
    Private photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and others were made public by the hackers
    Jennifer Lawrence nude photo hacker jailed for eight months
    From news.sky.com
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    Mar 20, 2022
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    Two observations I expand upon in this piece - Anonymous has probably never been bigger with groups around the world rallying to the Ukraine cause and the collective. And their tactics have evolved from disrupting & embarrassing their target to speaking direct to Russia people.