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And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. And the What's up everybody? My guest on this episode of Hidden Forces is Munib Ali.

Dr Ali is the co-founder of Block Stack, a full stack,

decentralized computing platform and application ecosystem that puts users in control of their identity and data.

We recorded this conversation on Sunday morning July 19th, four days after Twitter's social media platform was compromised and what

could have become one of the most catastrophic attacks in U.S. history.

I say could have because the attackers didn't just compromise the

individual accounts of people like candidate Joe Biden, former President

Barack Obama, and CEO Elon Musk.

But they actually hacked into the network itself

and were able to take full control of almost any account on the platform,

which means that they could have theoretically used any one of those accounts

to broadcast anything.

What they ended up doing with this godlike access was to broadcast a juvenile scam that brought in only about $100,000 in

Bitcoin from roughly 300 accounts.

Now, this raises a lot of questions primarily why would an attacker go to such lengths to gain

access to the accounts of the world's most powerful people and all of their private data only to conduct a six-figure

scam. It just doesn't make sense and it doesn't have to. We can still draw conclusions and learn lessons from this attack

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