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Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:53:12 +0300 (EEST)
"Twitter erroneously suspended, and subsequently restored, a prominent researchers account two months after he tweeted a security warning intended to inform his audience about an imminent threat. Aside from poor security handling, this situation offers a case study example of immature customer service and suggests problems with the organizations corporate culture. Mikko H. Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer at well-known computer security and anti-virus firm F-Secure, discovered that Twitter unexpectedly banned his account without warning." --clip-- More at http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=6327 If you have no time to read the article here is the point: "A two-month delay responding to perceived security threats does little to protect users." Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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