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Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit

Posted by samzenpus on from the little-troublemaker dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Who caused it? by FuckingNickName · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since the fall of Adam.

    Well, you did ask.

  2. Re:who's responsible? by matrim99 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...Suppose you post a mentally-handicapped guard at your castle gate. When you are gone, your enemy hands him a scroll with instructions and says "These are from your boss. He wants you to do them right away." The instructions tell him to ransack your bed-chamber and run your underwear up the flag-pole. The guard obeys. Who is to blame?

    Twitter.

    Oh wait, Microsoft.
    No... Google.

    Ooooh, Terrorists. Almost had me there.

    --
    Right. No, your other right. No, the other other right.