The purpose of this post is two-fold: First: To stress the importance of preserving the security of your on-line identity Second: Exposing a company who’s doing an inexcusably poor job of protecting your on-line identity Most of us don’t realize how insecure the on-line world can be. You create an account on a website, give it a username and the password of your choosing. That password is...
UPDATE 8/6 8.04am: It appears to be a Denial of Service attack that Twitter is currently combating. Back when Twitter was still just a method for geeks to spout off about whatever, seeing the Fail Whale was quite commonplace. Multiple times per day, Twitter would get overloaded and the system simply couldn’t keep up. Post venture capital, it’s finally come around that everyone from...