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

[The Security Community <thesecuritycommunity () gmail com>]

What security professional in their right mind would use Twitter?

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

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio
<juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
> "Twitter erroneously suspended, and subsequently restored, a prominent researcher’s 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 organization’s 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
>
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