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Jokes aside, this is a huge deal for Twitter. Unless they can prove that these guys did something like get phished, their professed monetization strategy of cor
by seldo 18y ago
Jokes aside, this is a huge deal for Twitter. Unless they can prove that these guys did something like get phished, their professed monetization strategy of corporate twitter accounts could run into real trouble.
- mtw 18y agoit strikes me that twitter has acute technology problems. Remember the scalability problems last year? now this security issue. Friendfeed in contrast, has none of these issues.
- johns 18y agoFriendFeed has none of the issues and does not have the critical mass to draw the sort of high-profile attention the defacers were seeking. Given enough scale, FriendFeed will have its share of issues.
- biohacker42 18y agoI can believe the "True geometric growth is hard to deal with period." argument when it comes to downtime. But what does scale have to do with security?
- wmf 18y agoMore users -> more attackers -> more holes found.
- alaskamiller 18y agoIt's like saying Macs don't have a virus problem.
- biohacker42 18y agoCorporate for pay twittering does not immediately strike me as a profitable business, is it just me?
- palish 18y agoNeither did online search in 1999.
- tlrobinson 18y agoThey weren't phished, Twitter's admin tools were hacked: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html Ouch, not exactly confidence inspiring. It's also sort of ironic that one of the headlines under "Twitter is Del.icio.us" is "Governments use Twitter for Emergency Alerts, Traffic Notices and More - Government Technology" Imagine the havoc that would ensue if a large number of people were following some government's emergency alerts on Twitter and someone were able to gain control. It would be pretty easy to incite panic. Or if the attacker didn't like a politician, like Obama, he could post subtly offensive comments as the politician.