Re: conficker "chatter" on twitter is heating up

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

Jon O.:

> Uh, so I'm not so worried about conficker -- I'm a bit more worried
> about the security experts (yes, you on this list) looking at twitter
> to find out the latest info ;). Do you really think that's a useful
> source?

Twitter isn't a place to get technical info, or data on what's happening 
on the transport layers of the 'net, but it's a good (and very low-cost) 
place to find out what a pretty big and miscellaneous (if not 
randomly-selected) bunch of users are thinking and saying.  And that can 
be valuable.  For instance if there was a sudden rush of mentions of a 
free anti-conficker tool that turned out to actually be the conficker.D 
installer...  :)

DC

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