Harmless Twitter Prank or Malicious Act?
October 15th, 2009 |
I was reviewing my Twitter follower list this morning and came across a potentially disturbing account tweeting what appears to be someone’s private information.
I reported this account by sending a Direct Message to @spam on Twitter. The service doesn’t seem to have any overt mechanism for reporting Terms of Service violations, though apparently, if enough people block a certain account, Twitter may decide to suspend the account.
I hope this is someone’s idea of a joke. If it’s for real, I hope Twitter shuts it down soon. People may not realize that every tweet is visible across the web the instant it’s published. Even if a tweet is deleted, it might still be visible in Twitter search and elsewhere.
This serves as a reminder of the potential privacy risks of social networking.
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Or worse, what if this is the next wave of bots/malware? It grabs an account and publishes private data stored on the machine. Probably not but damn, that is scary. Hope they’ve got identity theft protections in place.
Comment by Erik — October 15, 2009 @ 11:37 am