Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked

Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by biohacker42 on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:49PM (#421191)

I can believe the "True geometric growth is hard to deal with period." argument when it comes to downtime.

But what does scale have to do with security?

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by wmf on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:57PM (#421199)

More users -> more attackers -> more holes found.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by Herring on Monday January 05, 2009 @06:33PM (#421320)

Attackers can only find holes that are there to begin with.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by wmf on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:06PM (#421359)

There are always holes.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by Herring on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:51PM (#421403)

Some architectures are more resistant than others. I suppose you could break into some air gapped military computers -- if you had a nuke.

why are we even discussing this?

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by sanswork on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @01:27AM (#421682)

Or someone on your payroll on the inside.

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Re:Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accoun... by Herring on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @09:06AM (#421919)

Well that's universal. You can't exactly protect against someone who's also supposed to hold the keys to the system. Its more a feature than a bug.

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