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Twitter urges its users to change their passwords due to a bug
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| May 3, 2018 - 3:52PM
| Brenda Stolyar
Posted on 05/03/2018 5:32:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:32:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
>>That way, the company can validate your account without giving away your password.
Except they did give away your password
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:39:15 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
To: BenLurkin
Although they neglected to tell the people that Twitter is the bug...
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:39:55 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: BenLurkin
Yep. I saw the warning a few minutes ago and was wondering if everyone else was getting it.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:40:12 PM PDT
by
snarkpup
(Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
To: BenLurkin
Changed to a different schema.
I read some, rarely post. Why anyone follows me at all is a mystery.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:42:19 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: BenLurkin
Sounds like a feature to me.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:46:40 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: BenLurkin
I don’t trust Twitter about anything.
I suspect their motives on this one too.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:47:45 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: wally_bert
I’ve got 7900 followers on mine.
I don’t trust Twitter at all.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:49:04 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
Wayne Rogers followed me for a few days then died of old age.
I was flattered that he thought enough of me to do that.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:50:46 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
And none of my followers are fake or bought.
I check each one and follow most of mine.
I’ve easily blocked 2 times my followers.
Then I learned a trick, by blocking and then unblocking, it will remove the unwanted followers.
Clearly 3/4 of users on Twitter are fake or troll of some kind.
I’ve used it since 2009, only have one account and don’t plan to add another. I do have a mirror GAB account. Seldom ever use it now.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:52:28 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: wally_bert
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:53:23 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: Texas Fossil
Trapper John from MASH and later some kind of money/finance guy.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:55:26 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
I rarely tweet also. So if someone steals my account no big deal. I’ll just create another.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:55:44 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Bring our troops home. Defend our border.)
To: wally_bert
OK a celeb?
I have some interesting followers. But the most interesting ones I probably should not recognize. smile.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:56:58 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: wally_bert
A highly successful and cogent “money guy” that was on major financial shows back when people watched them. Surprisingly different than the character he played on MASH, but probably a tech lib.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:58:07 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
To: BenLurkin
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
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posted on
05/03/2018 5:58:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Texas Fossil
"I dont trust Twitter about anything. I suspect their motives on this one too."
Be prepared, we might get some extra wild tweets from President Trump's account now. No telling who got his password (Russia!).
To: BenLurkin
Twitters passwords are masked through a process called hashtag that uses a function known as bcrypt. This means that the passwords are replaced with a random set of numbers and letters stored within Twitters system. What a journalistic tech-writing train wreck. This was written by some journo who has a half-baked understanding and she manages to mangle the explanation. The writer thinks password encryption involves "hashtag" when she means "hashing".
To: BenLurkin
Probably their older encryption kept them from selling the current password database, so requiring everyone changing it to store in the new database will make it easier to sell the access. /S
To: armourenthusiast
Unless I miss-read the statement, it was only an internal file that was in the open. I suspect from the web it was not available.
The new file probably is internally encrypted too now.
So they say.
You know the Feds have the key to it all. They have same thing with Microsoft too.
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posted on
05/03/2018 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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