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      mlnews
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      "Twitter allowed someone to invade my text," Giuliani tweeted.

      Rudy Giuliani, who briefly advised Donald Trump on cybersecurity before taking a role as his personal attorney, doesn't understand how domain names work. And that lack of understanding led him to invent a ludicrous conspiracy theory about Twitter.

      It all started when Giuliani tweeted about special counsel Robert Mueller.

      If someone tweets out a valid URL, Twitter automatically converts it into a hyperlink. In this case, .in is the country code top-level domain for India, so Twitter interpreted "G-20.In" as a URL, linking it to http://g-20.in/.

      An Atlanta-based prankster named Jason Velazquez recognized the opportunity here and registered the G-20.in domain name.

      Read more on Ars Technica. Very funny stuff.

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        Donahue
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        I saw this one. I can't believe it is still up.

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          scottalanmiller @Donahue
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          @Donahue said in Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias:

          I saw this one. I can't believe it is still up.

          I doubt that he knows how to take it down. Or that things he says on the Internet stay there.

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            Donahue
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            but he's a self proclaimed "expert" of cyber security. https://www.zdnet.com/article/nobody-seems-to-know-what-rudy-giulianis-cybersecurity-company-actually-does/

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              scottalanmiller @Donahue
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              @Donahue said in Giuliani can’t figure out how URLs work, blames Twitter for liberal bias:

              but he's a self proclaimed "expert" of cyber security. https://www.zdnet.com/article/nobody-seems-to-know-what-rudy-giulianis-cybersecurity-company-actually-does/

              No kidding.

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                scottalanmiller
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                This pretty much sums up that Blackberry isn't a viable device any longer. Some people have touted it as being "extra secure", which seems implausible given how good Google and Apple are at security. But now we know...

                http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/blackberry-and-giuliani-partners-join-forces-to-combat-cyber-threats-nasdaq-bbry-2186549.htm

                Blackberry needs people who aren't even familiar with URLs to advice them on security. Um... no thanks.

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                  JaredBusch @mlnews
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                  @mlnews oh look NodeBB done been hack3d too then.

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