Originally published at: https://tidbits.com/2020/07/27/woz-sues-youtube-over-bitcoin-impersonation-scam/
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing YouTube over a Bitcoin-related scam. A similar scam made headlines recently with a mass Twitter attack.
I have a Feedbin âactionâ setup to will look for any article that mentions âSteve Wozniakâ and automatically mark it as âreadâ.
I still tend to see stuff on Twitter, though⌠usually itâs Woz giving his opinion about something at Apple 35 years after he left the company (âWoz hates ânatural scrollingââ or âWoz thinks Big Sur looks terribleâ or âWoz held a puppyâ), and Iâm always left wondering why anyone still cares what Woz thinks about anything related to Apple.
At least this news item isnât that. But Iâm still not sure it raises to the level of something we need to know about.
(Note: I may be a little extra cranky today. Donât take any of this personally, either Josh who wrote the article or anyone who likes Woz.)
I find this post ironic since thatâs what Woz is asking Google to do for videos that contain both âwozâ and âbitcoinâ
I still keep http://woz.org/ on my RSS feed list, but most of the time itâs just links to places where Woz was mentioned in somebody elseâs article. When he takes the time to write an actual article about technology, however, it is usually interesting.
One of the reasons we chose this article to link to is just as a small warning about Bitcoin scams, both on YouTube and on Twitter. I wouldnât expect TidBITS readers to fall for such things, but sometimes itâs good to call it out a little more.
And people have now been arrested in conjunction with the Twitter hack.
So âIan Restil,â the âbig bad bionic boyâ of 1997, Stephen Glassâ most outlandish of all his fake news fabulations that were published but never fact checked by The New Republic, really does exist:
I highly recommend watching the very entertaining film âShattered Glassâ about the scandal, especially since the perp that was invented over 20 years ago sounds a lot time the kid that just hacked Bitcoin.