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Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit
bennyboy64 writes "An Australian teen has caused havoc on Twitter by discovering an exploit that hit thousands of users, including Barack Obama's press secretary, and resulted in the tweets of a former British PM's wife linking to hardcore porn, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Pearce Delphin, who is studying his last year at high school, said that he was surprised that 'so many famous people got infected.'"
Or in keeping with your sig, Microsoft's fault for not including something like noscript to keep your browser from doing the wrong thing?
Well, the exploit uses JavaScript. This means that any browser that supports JavaScript does not provide some sort of NoScript facility that's installed and turned on by default would be vulnerable to the exploit.
Which means pretty much all of them.
But you can't even blame the browser; the security of Twitter's site belongs solely to Twitter and their crack website development staff.
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That doesn't even begin to clarify. Is he formerly British or formerly a PM? Is she formerly British or formerly his wife?
Yeah, well, he can write a book now and every IT manager and CISO will gobble it up and adjust their entire strategy because it is written by a guy whose name they saw on the news... as long as he mentions the word "cloud" in there somewhere of course.
The 1980s called. They want their curiosity back, you terrorist sympathizer!