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Twitter Hack Details Revealed
Jack Spine writes "Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed both to ZDNet UK and Wired's Threat Level blog that a dictionary attack was used to hack Twitter. After the hacker distributed details on the Digital Gangster forum, celebrities such as Britney Spears and Barack Obama had their accounts defaced.
Wired spoke to the alleged hacker, while ZDNet UK got in contact with someone who had been on the Digital Gangster forum at the time."
That's where the 18-year old kid is at fault. He showed a lack of hacker ethics. Good hackers may discover an exploit, but they don't do harm.
Maybe so, but really nice hackers patch the exploit with fairy dust and unicorn farts.
Aw, what's the use of going through all that trouble if you can't have Bill O'Reilly announce he's gay?
Is it any different than finding an unlocked car in the parking lot and opening the door, pushing the door lock, closing the door, and continuing on your merry way?
I like to do this when I find a car sitting outside a gas station still running.
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"HI Yall! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you all on the size of my vagina. Its about 4 feet wide with razor sharp teeth."
Liar, I'm not new here!
Somehow it is disturbing that the President-Elect is lumped in with Britney as a celebrity.
What is the level of discourse on Mr. Obama's twitter thing, anyway? I could look, I suppose, but it is more fun to imagine.
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im in ur white house
secret service bitches following me everywhere. about 3 minutes ago from web
these pancakes are righteous! about 2 hours ago from airforce1r
are ufoz real? I am going to find out! about 4 hours ago from web
I think Hillary just cut the cheese LOLz about 8 hours ago from twitterrific
That sounds more dangerous; because now my buddy is going to have a blank phone when we go out drinking tonight.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
Don't forget lame people! Your seething hatred of lame people comes out in treating "pretty lame" as an insult. How many more frightened people still at home in a wheelchair will be afraid to come out when it's demonstrated so clearly that being "lame" is uncool.
Liar, I'm not new here!
Oh no, not again...
I won't even shit the guy's lights off
The guy's already drained his car battery. He doesn't need your vulgarities.
Yeah, Hacker Ethics, that's it.
That reminds me of the time I thought I heard a noise at night and I walked into my kids room and there was this guy standing there looking at my 8 month old daughter sleeping. Scared the shit out of me. I was about to either kick his ass, or shit myself when he told me to calm down. He was an Ethical Burglar(TM).
He had used some pretty basic lock picking methods to break in and just wanted me to know my family was at risk and that we should cage ourselves in our own home so that the marauding Visigoths couldn't break in and kill us all.
I thanked him for his generous service and he said it was no problem. On his way out he looked at my house one more time and mentioned that he might come back another time and set the place on fire, so we should probably get a coating of asbestos or something to be ready for that.
I only wish we had more of these ethical hackers and burglers to keep up safe.
To show I have a sense of humor, I modded the parent Troll.
First of all, it was the (grand)parent comment that coined the term "Hacker Ethics."
Secondly, the problem with your argument is in actual usage. People that engage in cracking call themselves hackers because calling yourself a cracker implies you married your sister and spend most of your time playing banjo on the porch.
There has to be someway for a server to archive it all while allowing him access via a blackberry. Even if he has to lean on RIM for a custom server.
A corporate email service archiving mail? Whodathunkit?
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