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How hard is this to do...

I ask because I find it harder to believe that they are responsible for this. Just like I don't trust the YouTube videos either. I would find it more likely that three letter agencies are involved as PR.

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I don't buy it either. Seems fishy.

Fishy enough that the SEA's own Twitter account is gloating about it?

Fortunately it's really hard to make a Twitter account, what with all the passport checks and ID verification that goes on there. Only real, verified SEA members would be able to create such an account. And only when directly logging in from a verified Syrian government IP.

Go check the account [1] for yourself, if it's fake it's a long-planted fake strung along with other tweets dating back to August 15th and earlier and describing other known SEA hacks.

If it's not legit it would have to be because they let their own Twitter account get hacked at the same time Twitter was being hacked... which seems very noncompliant with Occam.

[1] https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16

The word "credulous" comes to mind.

The account was opened less than a month ago. That's not a long-planted fake.

a month old? dude, Im not standing on either side of this particular fence, it seems perfectly sensible to me to think that either side might be doing it.

Having said that, what on earth is it about that account that makes you think it has any kind of authority?

To be frank, I just couldn't care less who it was. This action is utterly irrelevant to anything that is happening in the real world.

Who is that account registered to?

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