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it strikes me that twitter has acute technology problems. Remember the scalability problems last year? now this security issue. Friendfeed in contrast, has none

• johns 18y ago
  FriendFeed 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      More users -> more attackers -> more holes found.
      • Herring 18y ago
        Attackers can only find holes that are there to begin with.
        • wmf 18y ago
          There are always holes.
          • Herring 18y ago
            Some architectures are more resistant than others. I suppose you could break into some air gapped military computers -- if you had a nuke. why are we even discussing this?
            • sanswork 18y ago
              Or someone on your payroll on the inside.
              • Herring 18y ago
                Well that's universal. You can't exactly protect against someone who's also supposed to hold the keys to the system. Its more a feature than a bug.
• alaskamiller 18y ago
  It's like saying Macs don't have a virus problem.