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Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

joomlaexpert — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:27:26 -0000

This can affect the popularity of the twitters.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Acai Berry — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:08:48 -0000

It is slightly worrying the number of sites that you can feed into twitter using your twitter account details. If one of those was to experience a problem, then all your data could be at risk very quickly!

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

celebtwitr — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:54:01 -0000

@ frankcrccd If you have a website and your on twitter it does get you more traffic but you have to work at it etc. @ spanishinspain Twitter is there it just depends how you use it, I wouldn't say it played a major role. I would certainly avoid viral on twitter. For anyone on Twitter don't twit me MLM grrr

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

InsideSpurdy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:10:38 -0000

I never use the "invite your friends" features. I can just as easily send a mass email myself without worrying about anyone else swipping my passwords.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Valley School Teacher — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:43:38 -0000

Yet does anyone really know the longterm damage that can be done by sharing so much about ourselves on something as permanent as the internet? Will the 2040 presidential nominees have twitter history from this year haunting them?

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Cali Detective — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:18:22 -0000

People seem to get lost in the app excitement and get sloppy about security. So happy to share personal where abouts, etc that they forget a certain discretion is still necessary.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

mktgpro — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:09:28 -0000

Of course Twitter needs to be more cautious than before. Even otherwise, I am quite wary of entering my passwords to Viral Tell A Friend kind of applications.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Green Times — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:25:23 -0000

I'm a bit suspicious about Techcrunch publishing such an important information... Could it be in Twitter's interest?

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

techfreakstuff — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:18:53 -0000

Recently heard that most of the Twitter private documents were hacked by Hackers by using Google and brought to notice of Common man! Is this what we call Security? Twitter needs to grow up...But anyways, I love twitter!

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

rotem — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:49:27 -0000

The big issue here is that hackers get access through a google apps account.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

AndyBeard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:42:00 -0000

That is just a snippet from the PC World article which specifically doesn't mention any Twitter accounts being accessed, other than Twitter employees who had their Gmail compromised.

http://www.pcworld.com/arti...

The only place you will find claims to people outside twitter being compromised (this time around) are are sensationalist headlines which are scraped together from other sources.
Thing might appear in searches just due to keyword use, not because it actually happened.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Tim Acheson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:07:33 -0000

Some commentators say that user accounts were compromised:

http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

Others accept Twitter's official line which is that the hacker only produced evidence of one account being hacked.

Either way, the hacker did apparently have had access to Twitter user accounts to some extent, and took a screenshot of at least one. Twitter's blog claimed that only that one user account was compromised.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

tampapestcontrol — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:23:20 -0000

Lately I've also been thinking about all of the various apps requesting access to your Twitter account in order to function. Sure they use the api, but what's stopping some of these sites from being malicious with the user/pass information? Not much, far as I can tell.

Good point regarding the Viral TAF systems as well. A compromised Email addy is bad news.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

lisalyne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:30:48 -0000

I know that before, i'd rather not give away my passwords on the web.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

AndyBeard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:51 -0000

I doubt that very much - Twitter doesn't need Techcrunch for anything now

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

AndyBeard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:27:09 -0000

I think you have your facts wrong on what data was actually seen

They didn't get access to celebrity accounts on this, but personal details such as direct email addresses possibly to agents etc.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Tim Acheson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:10:22 -0000

Now Twitter's own internal systems have been hacked, along with the accounts of Twitter users including celebrities:

http://www.timacheson.com/B...

The initial point of entry wasn't a gap in Twitter's security. The hacker(s) gained access through a Google Apps account. The worry with a Google account is, it's web-based and therefore only as secure as the rest of the Internet. If yuor Google account is compromised and you use Google Docs in a serious commercial setting, your Twitter account will be the least of your worries.

Re: Twitter Security Hypocrisy

Neo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:04:05 -0000

I'm thinking whether twitters popularity will be hit by techcrunch or not.

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