Re: Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

The Security Community wrote:

> What security professional in their right mind would use Twitter?

While I kinda agree with the sentiment here -- Twitter itself is 
clearly a security and privacy disaster on steroids...

> I'd say it was a good call on Twitter's part.

...but that's silly.

Twitter nuked his account two months after posting the "malware URL".  
The domain has long since NOT been malicious.

This debacle is simply more evidence of the near total lack of 
collective security clue assembled at twitter.com.



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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