Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked

Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by wesley on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:58PM (#420873)

This might finally push twitter to use something like oAuth. I predict they will launch it by next week and it will be required by every third party app.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by mtw on Monday January 05, 2009 @02:01PM (#420878)

explain to me how oAuth would have prevented this? there's no indication that the attack was using a third-party app

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by evgen on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:36PM (#421172)

It would not have prevented this, but by jumping on another tangentially-related bandwagon the Twitter folks probably figure that they can distract everyone from the real problem and get ahead of the curve on credentials and authentication for the third-party ecosystem that is starting to develop around twitter.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by maneesh on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @08:35AM (#421894)

you make it sound like an episode of 'The West Wing,' I think that they will spend more time trying to solve their actual security issues than trying to distract from the problem

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