Re: Weiner's Twitter Tweak

Uh that was the opposite of what I intended by my comment.

The fact is that to hack that would take a lot effort, and likely would have
triggered a fraud alert if they used random words as lance suggested. 

An idiot taking a picture of his bulging undies and tweating it while not
considering the full ramifications is much more likely.



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 11:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Weiner's Twitter Tweak

That is true.  Even though the "random" email was pretty easy to crack, it
is even easier for someone to just know it.  Since it is not typically
treated as a password, it could be stored many places and on many devices as
plain text.  So it is a security fail on many levels.  
Maybe, a little brilliant for making the service super easy to use.  But it
was asking to be abused.

On 6/5/2011 10:59 PM, Karl Swenson wrote:
> Wasn't there the tiny detail of knowing it (the random email)?  Did I 
> miss something?
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> -----Original Message-----
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>> Well, having a randomly generated email address you had to use was
> similar to a password.
>
> Yeah... But it allowed people to post stuff to your Twitter account 
> with no need for knowing your password.
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