Re: conficker "chatter" on twitter is heating up

["John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP" <bambenek.infosec () gmail com>]

Think of twitter as an intel gathering tool... But more for teh stoopid. ;)

Damn internet ruins everything

On 4/1/09, David M Chess <chess () us ibm com> wrote:
> 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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