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Britney & Baracks Twitter accounts hacked

Jesus Presley — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:54:40 +0000

So this is what communication mania is making out of us and web2.0 creatives:

Complete idiots.

Somehow we -consumers and deciders- are totally horny of being part of the bigbuzz communities we simply forgot about security.

So this happened:
A hacker gained access to several Twitter accounts by brut force – among them Barack Obamas and Britney Spears’. Twitter was already known for having security isuues do to unencrypted password transmission. Well, here’s a video that explains what he did:

Official Twitter feeds belonging to Barack Obama’s campaign, Fox News and Britney Spears were hijacked to send out fake messages on Monday, two days after a password-stealing phishing attack targeted the microblogging service.

“A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised this morning, and fake/spam updates were sent on their behalf,” the company acknowledged on its website Monday. “We have identified the cause and blocked it. We are working to restore compromised accounts.”

Read on at wired.com

Sparrows and a whale

Jesus Presley — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:47:17 +0000

I love that graphic department at Twitter: Isn’t this a peachy illustration – consider that this was used during a database crash. Luvly.

Twistori | Emotional Content Harvester

Jesus Presley — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:00:59 +0000

Beautiful Twitter Mashup: Twistori. A content harvester that filters emotional twitter microposts. Made by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.

A “first person” visualization of Twitter messages, inspired by We Feel Fine. Twitter messages are filtered by occurrences of the phrases:

I love

I hate

I think

I believe

I feel

I wish

which are placed in a visual scrolling message ticker. Similar to Digg Labs BigSpy.

via Information Aesthetics