Single Point of Failure
By now you have seen this image all over.
![](https://kahomono.com/media/posts/1710/twitter-hack.jpg)
Check out the coverage of this story in The Hacker News. It's better than most, but still doesn't get it quite right... in my opinion.
Here's the thing: Not Obama nor Gates nor Bezos nor any of these prominent figures "got hacked." What they did was, they trusted their identity and part of their public face to a single entity: Twitter. Twitter is the only one in this story that "got hacked." The Hacker News article details why they did, but it's the fact that it matters so much that I find so distressing.
To me, the problem is not that Twitter got hacked, the problem is what a gigantic vulnerability for everyone this points up. I can think of one particular moron who could literally start World War III via his Twitter account. In fact, he damn near did.
Is this what humanity needs as a single point of failure for... all of civilization? Twitter?