[Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?

[hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! I hereby DECLARE WAR ON N.KOREA!! Nuke Bombs & Rockets 
start falling in 30 min. ENJOY HELL LIDDLE ROCKET MAN! 


Suppose the ?rogue employee? exiting Twitter had decided to post something 
like that on @realDonaldTrump instead of just inactivating the account. Kim 
might not have been panicked into a military response, but the tension would 
have gone through the roof, and Trump?s credibility through the floor. 

Just think about this for a minute: ONE low-level flunky at ONE private 
company, able to impersonate the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth 
with what sounds like one of the real thing?s intemperate, bellicose 
eructations. The mind reels.

When America has been saddled with a thin-skinned, easily provoked, 
arrogant, intemperate juvenile delinquent with all the emotional stability 
and self-control of a pimply 13-year-old feeling his first rush of 
testosterone for its President and he connects both ends of his id?s 
digestive tract raw and unfiltered to his Twitter feed that?s as accessible 
internally as mine is, America?s misfortune could become the world?s. 

Do you think that no one outside the WH knows, or could discover, the 
password associated with this account and how to spoof two-factor 
authentication? All it might take is being able to do it one time. How much 
would you be willing to bet on the absolute security of @realDonaldTrump? 
The future of the world? I?d bet my dog (not really, Maizey!) that Kim?s or 
Vlad?s or the ayatollahs? hackers could do it if they wished, which of 
course they fervently do. For God?s sake, think about what they?re already 
known to have gotten into!

This is just intolerable. I want to start a change.org <http://change.org/> 
petition calling on all social media to close the accounts of all heads of 
state under any name that identifies them as such or becomes recognizable as 
theirs. I think this mundane episode is a real sleeper that could turn into 
something really really major, and even though few might have thought about 
it before this, the social media should have. I think it?s unconscionable 
that the muckety-mucks at Twitter didn?t take every possible step to make 
Trump?s account accessible only at the highest levels, and even then 
requiring two launch officers to turn their keys simultaneously. 

Trump should fly into one of his patented rages and demand that 
#failingTwitter put nuclear-level security on his account and should refuse 
to use it until the NSA?s top spooks have reviewed every aspect of that 
security. Of course, recognizing no interests whatever outside his own, he 
didn?t and won?t.

Mark my words.