"'The micro blogging platform is aware of this hack and was taking necessary actions to save those people’s account from malicious activity', said a Twitter insider."
At first my reaction to the story was "like I give a tweet!" What are they going to do, tweet something inane? Um... that's kind of the point of the whole service, isn't it?
But then I remembered the true vulnerability with leaked usernames/passwords: people use the same ones across sites.
These same people would never change their username/password combo on ANOTHER site due to prompting ont he Twitter site. They just can't read and follow directions like that. (If they could they probably wouldn't have the same username/pd combo).
So, I think that:
"'The micro blogging platform is aware of this hack and was taking necessary actions to save those people’s account from malicious activity', said a Twitter insider." is asking the impossible.
The only malicious activity is on the users' other, real, non-SMS-length-message-broadcasting-to-the-whole-world accounts... (email, facebook, etc)
"'The micro blogging platform is aware of this hack and was taking necessary actions to save those people’s account from malicious activity', said a Twitter insider."
At first my reaction to the story was "like I give a tweet!" What are they going to do, tweet something inane? Um... that's kind of the point of the whole service, isn't it?
But then I remembered the true vulnerability with leaked usernames/passwords: people use the same ones across sites.
These same people would never change their username/password combo on ANOTHER site due to prompting ont he Twitter site. They just can't read and follow directions like that. (If they could they probably wouldn't have the same username/pd combo).
So, I think that: "'The micro blogging platform is aware of this hack and was taking necessary actions to save those people’s account from malicious activity', said a Twitter insider." is asking the impossible.
The only malicious activity is on the users' other, real, non-SMS-length-message-broadcasting-to-the-whole-world accounts... (email, facebook, etc)