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Journal Journal: Twitter docs hack exploits stupidity vuln

Journal by Hanike on Friday July 24, 2009 @05:49PM

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Read full story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/20/dziuba_twitter_hack/

Submission + - Twitter docs hack exploits stupidity vuln (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by

Hanike

on Friday July 24, 2009 @05:41PM

Hanike writes: "[ Over a month ago, a hacker gained access to Twitter's internal documents and thereby introduced the unprofitable Web 2.0 darling to the blunt end of internet justice. Hacker Croll — the still anonymous Frenchman who has claimed responsibility for the attack — cracked the personal e-mail account of a Twitter administrator. In its observance of the San Francisco startup law of relying on free, online productivity suites instead of ponying up to Microsoft for something that actually works, Twitter stores all of its internal documents on Google Docs.

The administrator whose account was hacked used the same password for both his personal e-mail and his Google Docs login. Yes, web applications are sure to overtake desktop applications any day now.

Hacker Croll didn't exploit any software vulnerabilities. He exploited stupidity. To crack this personal e-mail account, all he had to do was answer a security question, which is the same way that a hacker gained access to Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account during the 2008 election.

(...)

More likely than not, if you had the login information from some office drone who spends his day cultivating a corporate tan under the fluorescent lights of a private, climate controlled hell, you most likely had credentials for a Windows NT domain or Active Directory.

(...)

And just for the sake of completion, if you know a TechCrunch writer's account information can load up http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-login.php and start posting about how online productivity suites will save us all from a hoof to the face by the savage brute in Redmond. ]

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by Hanike on Friday July 24, 2009 @05:36PM

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Journal Journal: Stop Uwe Boll to destroy gamer's dreams!

Journal by Hanike on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @07:27PM

Please, all Gamers around the world, help to stop Uwe Boll to destroy our most dear videogames in his infamous and disrespectful movie "adaptations"!

He has already destroyed great games as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Alone In The Dark, Dungeon Siege, Far Cry, Postal, Rampage... and so many others are to come if we don't stop him right NOW!
There are even rumors in internet that he was trying to destroy Metal Gear Solid and Legacy of Kain series!

Bookmark Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition (petitiononline.com)

by Hanike on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @06:32PM

Submission + - Stop Uwe Boll's Crap Movies! (petitiononline.com)

Submitted by areReady on Monday April 07, 2008 @03:01PM

areReady writes: Uwe Boll, the creator of the veritable hall of shame of the worst sci/fi fantasy movies of all time — particularly horrendous video game adaptations — has agreed to stop making movies if an online petition requesting that he stop gets 1,000,000 signatures. The time has come to wield the might of Slashdotters for the good of humanity.

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