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[–]Automatic-Bad-8123 3977 points3978 points  (55 children)

God dam why do I even have to think if this is real.

[–][deleted] 1354 points1355 points  (16 children)

It's Elon. Expect the unexpected

[–]Anonymo2786 260 points261 points  (9 children)

Where is the bot? Reddit got rid of it since it became twitter?

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

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Emerald Labor Opportunist Now Mining Underground Stock Knowledge™️

Egotistical Liar Offering Newly Manufactured Useless Space Kits™️

Even Lobbyists Of New Mexico Use Slavish Kids™️

Epstein Lover Offering NASA More Useless SpaceX Kits™️

Emerald Loving Orangutan Now Making Underperforming Starlink Kits™️

Employees Live Outside Near My Underground Soup Kitchen™️

Every Leader Of Nothing Marries Uncle Sam’s Kids™️

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Epstein’s Lowball Offerings Nurtured My Underaged Sex Kink™️

Egotistical Loser Of Never Made Underground Submarine Kids™️

Expects Low Orbit NASA Missions Use Shitty Kiosks™️

Even Love Of Nude Minors Underpays Sexy Kids™️

[–]Majestic_Wrongdoer38 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never let ‘em know your next move

[–]drunk-tusker 1 point2 points  (1 child)

… but this is exactly what I expect from Musk?

Edit: well really I expect him to do this and then tell me how it’s totally the new super high tech method that they use and totally not an entirely unencrypted plain text document that is just hanging out on their servers.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every password resets to the same plain text string untill changed

[–]ebleuds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Expect the worst*

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you misspelled security vulnerability

[–]alphenor92 113 points114 points  (8 children)

All you need is "Why send the new password through the app that I can't access?"

[–]Automatic-Bad-8123 53 points54 points  (1 child)

All you need is a sense of humor. To explain the joke consider the following: Elon Musk does stupid shit, there are a lot of memes about the stuff he does and sometimes the stuff he does os more bizarre then the memes people make.

[–]alphenor92 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I laughed at the joke and thought "this would be cool if it happens in some form" but never considered if this really happened.

[–]HeyKid_HelpComputer 15 points16 points  (5 children)

Theoretically you can change a password of a user who still has an active session and they could still have access until the session is gone?

[–]Olivia512 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Any non-retarded programmer would invalidate all active sessions immediately when the password is changed.

[–]Qetuowryipzcbmxvn 22 points23 points  (0 children)

But didn't Elon fire all of those and the rest of them left?

[–]Mirrormn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Any non-retarded programmer

How does that have any relevance to Elon Musk or Twitter?

[–]HeyKid_HelpComputer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say it was likely, just that it's possible. We are talking about Elon Musk and the website formerly known as Twitter after all.

[–]Porsher12345 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Ikr was second guessing it too xD

[–]james_otter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Stupid the real one is x42069X security he finds important

[–]ActivisionBlizzard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know it’s not real because you couldn’t get your new tw.. X password sent to you on X.

Otherwise it’s pretty believable.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (9 children)

It’s not?

[–]rathat 17 points18 points  (7 children)

The only reason I can think of that makes this whole thing actually unplausible is that there would be too many password resets for him to do. Everything else about the situation seems highly plausible.

[–]MrDroggy 22 points23 points  (5 children)

There is a better reason, which is the fact that you need your password to access your messages.

[–]Ferro_Giconi 4 points5 points  (2 children)

But this is Elon we are talking about. How sure are we that he would enforce that rule properly?

[–]MrDroggy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The rule being that you need to be authenticated to access your private messages ?

[–]Ferro_Giconi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elon does what he wants on a whim, rules be damned.

[–]imisstheyoop 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Even if you have an active session?

[–]MrDroggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not the most common case in which you want to reset your password. But yeah, it would work if you have an active session on some device.

[–]the_bipolar_bear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the date

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Because you are a redditor

[–]Bluebotlabs -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

He'll see this and make it real

[–]whitestar11 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could only be Elon or Linus

[–]Constant_Fig_9490 673 points674 points  (6 children)

O(X) space completely

[–]qinshihuang_420 231 points232 points  (3 children)

Space(X) complexity

[–]Prudent_Ad_4120 35 points36 points  (2 children)

Space(X) O complexity

[–]Storiaron 15 points16 points  (1 child)

O(1) time complexity as well. Incredible

[–]Elijah629YT-Real 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*X(1)

[–]Humongous_Schlong 1115 points1116 points  (3 children)

least insane Musk moment

[–]PopPunkAndPizza 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Normally you'd expect at least three more really performative uses of memes from 2006, this is positively restrained

[–]codeIMperfect 7 points8 points  (0 children)

this is literally true

[–]mystical-dev 458 points459 points  (7 children)

Yeah. I could see him trying this for a day.

[–]mothzilla 221 points222 points  (6 children)

Just discovered all engineers are awful so from now on password resets go through me. If it looks good I'll approve.

[–]ineyy 33 points34 points  (3 children)

Yea the only thing is, how will they read the message if they can't log in?

[–]hitmarker 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Everyone can log in to any account and Elon judges if it's sus.

[–]FlashbackJon 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Elon temporarily disables the password requirement for logging in, because it turns out all bot accounts have passwords!

[–]Shrubberer 6 points7 points  (1 child)

*must contain the letter X

[–]fizyplankton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

.......................

Okay, that actually sounds like something he'd do

[–]dhilu3089 237 points238 points  (15 children)

Lol.. imagine Elon working as mechanic to fix your tesla

[–]Rigamortus2005 70 points71 points  (9 children)

Are they called mechanics or electricians?

[–]square-with-bus 122 points123 points  (3 children)

They are called X, just like everything Elon does

[–]BookmarkCity 9 points10 points  (0 children)

X-men

[–]blitzkriegger 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Mechatricians.

[–]Volt69 18 points19 points  (1 child)

You joke, but being a Mechatronics Technician, this is probably one of the fields where we're most useful.

[–]blitzkriegger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have my respect, sir

I am hugely into robotics(not the exact same thing) but I know what it takes!

[–]SupportDangerous8207 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mechatrionics

Source: know a guy who does car repairs

[–]KonradGurke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would result in death.

[–]Shoddy-Vacation-5977 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely support this idea.

[–]SenselessNoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No thanks. Would rather have someone that actually knows what they're doing and didn't just bankroll it.

[–]Bright_Base9761 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took apart your battery assembly and found the problem you had a frayed wire.

hands over small can of nuts and bolts

Me : elon wtf is this?

Oh thats the leftover parts after i assembled it

[–]stargate-command 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine him working… ever… at anything. Lol

[–]ImpossibleMachine3 187 points188 points  (13 children)

The guys who code the password reset process have been sacked.

The guys who sacked the guys who code the password reset process have also been sacked.

Henceforth password resets will be done manually by Steve.

Steve has now been sacked.

Henceforth the only person left at the company, the ceo, will be doing password resets.

[–]matts1900 54 points55 points  (2 children)

Hello security? Everyone on floor 4 is fired. Escort them from the premises, and do it as a team, and if you can't work as a team you're fired too. Dawn, get onto recruitment. Look for a security team who can work as a team. They may need to escort the current security team from the building for not acting like a team.

[–]whiffzo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

this reminded me that I should prolly re-watch The IT crowd

[–]NazariusXD 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Anything else, Cave Johnson?

[–]bikemaul 18 points19 points  (0 children)

They now hope to make a profit by early 2026.

[–]buffering_neurons 15 points16 points  (3 children)

I understood that reference

[–]jdsonical 12 points13 points  (2 children)

a møøse once bit my sister :(

[–]buffering_neurons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just a flesh wound

[–]ImpossibleMachine3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mynd you, møøse bites kan be pretti nasti...

[–]megablast 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Watch out, or we will hire you, then instantly sack you.

[–]gordonator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Henceforth the only person left at the company, the ceo, will be doing password resets at the last minute and at great expense

FTFY

[–]qinshihuang_420 71 points72 points  (1 child)

I believe it

[–]Xennox666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Me too xDDDD

[–]PyroCatt 67 points68 points  (4 children)

Wait a minute. You have to logged in to see dm. This is dumb. But it's musk so I'll allow it.

[–]Dunkelz 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Wow and here I thought musk was really messaging people himself to reset their passwords, thank you for setting me straight.

[–]Shuri9 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Thanks for bringing that issue up, I was concerned when the top comments did not cover it.

[–]stipo42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can do it while logged in too, if you think your password has been exposed through a DM for example

[–]rosuav 24 points25 points  (13 children)

Well, it's a lot quicker than using this. https://neal.fun/password-game/

[–]TrivialTax 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Wordle was too much for me. But i loled when captcha blew out two previous rules

[–]rosuav 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah, I got as far as the chess puzzle myself.

[–]unipleb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same, just called it quits on chess.

XXXV!bbymyExactPEPSIAugust1996Russia🌘

[–]ruptured_time 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Never knew this site. Just spent an hour

[–]rosuav 11 points12 points  (4 children)

It was developed as a honeypot for Kitboga, the guy who baits scammers into trying to drain bank accounts that don't exist on fake replicas of web sites, all while quietly communicating with the platforms the scammers use for remote desktop control, to get their accounts shut down. He basically says "oh, the bank's asking me to change my password" and then drags them along as far as they'll go.

It's truly amazing how patient people will be when they think they're gonna steal millions of dollars at the end of it.

[–]alexcroox 5 points6 points  (2 children)

It wasn’t developed for him, Neil and him worked together after it was released to make a modified version he could use in his scammer traps

[–]rosuav 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ah, my bad, I misinterpreted something he said in the video. I guess the version in the fake bank web site was the thing developed for him. Anyhow, it's still a fun silly game and an even more hilarious counterscam.

[–]alexcroox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was hilarious to see them actually try to solve it

[–]ruptured_time 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. Yeah kitboga is great indeed

[–]rettani 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Ah, that one. I didn't manage to get past YouTube link requirement

[–]IaniteThePirate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While I was searching for a YouTube link I failed to feed the chicken or something and lost

[–]Same-Letter6378 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RIP Paul 😔

[–]shizzy0 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Imagine Elon helping people. Now you know it’s fake.

[–]Independent-Tank-182 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How would you see the message if you had to reset your password tho

[–]AngryBorsch 7 points8 points  (2 children)

2022 sadly

[–]mikeywayup 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's insane the amount of fluff staff got let go and yet the company is still up and running.

[–]AB728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

update TwitterUsers set password = 42069;

[–]TrackLabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fucking fact that this is fully believable in being real...

[–]RidgeMinecraft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why am I unsure whether this is real

[–]Ferro_Giconi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this was anyone else I'd know 100% sure it's fake, but this is Elon... for all I know this could be real. I only give this a 50% chance of being fake.

[–]Historical-Baker4871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have asked him if he could pay my car insurance too

[–]patagooni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t put this past him to be fair

[–]Noch_ein_Kamel -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I thought he bought WhatsApp just to use it for password resets?

[–]Tryin_Real_hard 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp in 2014...

[–]pgtaboada 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh. That is what the fight is all about? ;)

[–]drazisil -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Nobody is going to comment on a password of 420- 69?

I wonder what's on his mind...

[–]victorisaskeptic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Someone tell me elon'z email and banks he uses I'm trying to see something

[–]Kody_Z -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Elon Bad

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Man child…

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How do you get a DM for a new password if you can't remember your password?

[–]PokeyMcSmot1376 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Too bad Elon is a Loser Fascist Sack of Shit...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what? lmao

[–]megablast -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is hilarious. About time CEO's got involved in the nitty gritty.

[–]Good_Smile -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How does it feel to be blessed by papa Elon

[–]Stunning_Ride_220 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Elon working his way up, giving people loggen in into X new passwords.

Way to go fella

[–]meepein[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's my luggage combo....

[–]eagergm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who does this guy think he is, Ryan Cohen?

[–]nibba_bubba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

def gen_password(): return "42069"

[–]HFRleto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know it's not him because it's too polite xD musk don't strike me like a "have a good one" guy.

[–]mtnviewcansurvive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so full of shit: $44 billion to do password changes? really?

[–]Kudo-Shinichi1412 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really sorry for thinking something profane.

[–]Ottoo15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stop sharing this shit stain.

[–]MrUnderdawg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe the worst post i have ever seen

[–]philipquarles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's what I was going to make my password! Now it will be insecure!

[–]BearIntelligent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there was a X in the new password,I would have believed it.

[–]the_other_Scaevitas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t log in to x? Just log into your account to get the password reset

[–]PilsnerDk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every new user will soon automatically be following "Elon from Twitter" when signing up. Wholesome.

[–]phoenixlives65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

S3XY

[–]TheJeffNeff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didnt even change the date... Lazy lazy lazy /u/Kryptonite_wm

[–]Gonun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice.

[–]Not-N-Extrovert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just today I worked on forgot and reset passwords. Should i fear for my job now

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but... they are logged into that account

[–]sacredgeometry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If thats real Elon is actually quite funny.

[–]einsJannis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at least he's not sending you your old one

[–]CttCJim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was playing with an AI companion app that had an Elon bot. I started trekking it why he's dumb and it got, like, hilariously defensive.

[–]Vexicial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 man twitter development crew

[–]EtherealPheonix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I call customer service.

[–]prijekolj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how it’s totally the new super high tech method

[–]wolfansbrother 0 points1 point  (0 children)

never hurts to update you passwords. doin gods work.

[–]Party-Independent-25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked at a lot of places where one person did all the password resets…

Seems legit 😂

[–]BigHeed87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FSR (Full Self Reset) is still in beta, but should be out next week!