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If you haven’t yet heard, the popular microblogging service Twitter was hacked. The hacker obtained access to the password of Twitter Co-founder Evan Williams’ email account, his wife’s email account, as well as the email accounts of other Twitter employees.
From there, the hacker, who calls himself, “Hacker Croll,” also accessed other accounts including PayPal and Amazon. As a result, the hacker stole confidential documents from Twitter, which include business ideas, financial projections, executive notes, and more. To make matters even worse, “Hacker Croll” then sent this information to TechCrunch, Mashable, and a French technology blog called Korben.
Mashable said it will not publish any of the documents, but despite the loud opposition from the online community, both TechCrunch and Korben have. Yesterday, TechCrunch published a series of executive meeting notes and promises to publish even more of the documents.
This incident has raised both security and ethical alarms. Are you now questioning if your private and corporate information is safe and secure? Should TechCrunch and Korben have published these documents? Do physical and digital ethics differ? How will this event impact Twitter going forward?
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There are so many Phishing emails is there any way to tell them from the real thing?
internet is not a safe place, no matter how they imposed heightened security… we don’t know what will happen next.
Hacker Croll did his job but now Evan Williams needs to be concern about the Security and Ethical of his website. And I don’t think this hacker will affect Twitter going forward.
It’s their own damn fault for having such information on a service like that. It’s not secure, and they got what they deserved. I’d never send such vital information over those services. Yahoo puts things like “Yahoo employees will never ask you for your password”, and I’ve seen things similar to that on MySpace. I can’t believe people would send that kind of information over a not secure service, which, if the other person doesn’t delete the message, is stored indefinitely, giving hackers plenty of time to hack away till they get access. I can’t even imagine how many social security numbers or other information has probably been stolen from myspace or other social networking site accounts.
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If anybody relies on the security of a “bllgogsite” to keep themselves secure and safe, they should be checked into a very secure nuthouse. A blogsite is nothing more than a chance to vent about thoings that are happening and you mat be one of many who are nuts or one who are many who for some insane reason reply. I am right now for replying for some insane reason !!!
OK! Let it all just be and blog-on to be happy, not secure!
to Angela Waybourne go to the twitter site gets no info on contacts But WebProNews published a listing of people that have ownership and their e-mail addeys access that and alternatively send it to Google/Microsoft etc to their abuse reporting systems and let them get ahold of Twitter.com
I am concerned about twitter for a different reason. Twitter has a member @niggerhanger who represents whitepower who expresses very racist views such as
“What do you do when you see a nigger with half a head? (What?) Stop laughing and reload”.
When I looked at Twitter TOS I couldn’t see any way to report this. surely it is illegal to express such views in a public forum?? I found them by accident when searching for New Zealands rugby team #AllBlacks which @niggerhanger used as a keyword in a post. A lot of ppl found it and got upset by it.
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