Twitter recommends all users change their passwords...

If it were intentional on the part of Twitter, why say anything at all?

 

I recommend all twitter users make better use of their minds and time.

 

I have a Twitter account and have a bunch of celebrities I follow. I never look at it.

The funniest thing about Twitter to me is why would anyone follow an average person like me. Secondly I really don't care what these people are randomly thinking during the day.

The only real useful purpose I think it serves is following breaking news

 

What's twitter?

OK, seriously, its a good idea to routinely change your passwords for all accounts, especially those connected with social media. Twitter accounts have been hacked often over many years.

I mostly follow interesting people... political reporters and commentators (gee, you think?), local sports team members and front office people, local sports reporters (both pro teams and local HS and AAU/select basketball people), and technology people (analysts, consultants, and other technologists). And fantasy football people... especially now as we approach the season.

 

Oh, the irony.

 

When does someone starting posting as president Trump?

 

Many over-zealous software engineers have a tendency to code their error exception handlers to log damn near everything, including the request payload, whenever an exception (e.g. bug) occurs. And forget to (or never think about) scrub out sensitive data -- such as a user's password -- from the logging routine before the log gets written. They have a mindset of "record as much info as possible" so that debugging is easier.

There's a decent possibility that something along those lines is what happened at Twitter.

Also, the MSN/Reuters article's paraphrasing of "hashing" is incorrect...

 

Hey, I think this BBS is more worthwhile for a variety of reasons.

 

It is the quickest place to go to to find out what’s going on in the world.

 

We need an innovation that will do away with passwords once and for all.

 

Face recognition

Already in the works

 

DNA recognition

 

Like normal news is so glacial?

Twitter is the quickest way for a person to reinforce their tribal bubble and hate on those in other bubbles. It is societal poison.

 

I was talking about this BBS. I can see most everything of immediate importance by logging into this site and looking at the thread titles.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I changed mine today.