Re: Information security on Twitter

["Jan G.B." <ro0ot.w00t () googlemail com>]

2010/4/14 David Kovar <dkovar () gmail com>:
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:59 AM, John Morrison wrote:
>
> > Jan,
> >
> > Personally I treat Tweets as unreliable. If I see something
> > interesting I will look for more reliable sources.
>
> <stuff deleted>
>
> The quality of the Tweets depends on who you follow and is much like any
> other source you might use. There are reliable and unreliable mailing lists,
> web sites, blogs, and RSS feeds. It isn't the communication mechanism that
> determines their quality.
>
> -David

I agree with that. But I don't think that the quality is the topic
here. Assuming that twitter has some single tweets of new information
with high quality (*cough* => quality worth 140 chars), then what
would make twitter usable for us? What would a person interested in
security things need?

(
 * strict Topic focus of the persons doing tweets [can never be accomplished]
OR
 * ability to categorize on an item level
) AND (
 * usable archive function
 * reliability
 * unmoderated contents
 * more ...
)

AFAIK, twitter hasn't got any of it. For me, it is worthless. And I
don't believe that twitter is meant to be a medium for "PUBLISHING".
It's meant for small advertisements and status messages leading
somewhere else.



A Side note: In the OPs tweets (twitter.com/n3td3v) you find a link to
a comment (proposition) of himself:
http://news.cnet.com/8618-27080_3-20002385.html?communityId=2134&targetCommunityId=2134&blogId=245&messageId=9269223&tag=mncol
This shows pretty clear, that his goal hasn't got anything to do with
bringing information to the masses. It's about suppressing
information. I don't get what he's up to when speaking about an
_unmoderated_ list *here*. This government-led list he's dreaming
about would work directly with services like twitter to get rid of
unwanted information and people, I assume. Researchers would be jailed
so there's no need to list them, hm? :-)

Regards

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