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We've been trying to avoid the whole Twitter-gate drama that's been unfolding over the last 72 hours because we know how much you don't want to hear about Twitter but this little detail is not related to the Twitter hacking, despite presenting significant security issues for the company.
For those of you who don't really care to know what happened this week, you can skip to the next paragraph. For those of you who kind of care, I'll try to be brief. The long and short of it is Twitter was hacked by someone calling him or herself the Hacker Croll. Hundreds of important documents were sent to tech blogger Michael Arrington who then asked readers whether he should or shouldn't publish the information. A debate on morals and Arrington's place as a journalist to report the facts ensued. TC has been posting frequent updates on the story since the whole thing began.
Today TechCrunch posted a pretty surprising story that claims the password to access the Twitter servers is actually "password." Alright, so there's probably a ton of you that have set up accounts for your kids or your grandparents (or someone equally new to technology) and password is an easy term to remember, for both of you. Should they happen to forget and have to call you, it's not something you'll forget. For a rapidly-growing social media company to use it as the password to access their servers, though? Probably not such a cool idea. Screenshots below (courtesy of TechCrunch).
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and I thought it was Administrator, color me red.
Damn, now I have to change the code on my luggage.
Idin't they ahve the same issue with an administrative user a while back that led to celebrity accounts being hacked?
At this point I wouldn't trust their security at all... luckily I could care less about the self promotion that goes on there.
wot are the most commonly used passwords: sex, money, love, god and password!
one CAPITAL
one lowercase
one num3er
one $ymbol
How hard is it twitter?
Editted for spelling correctness.
lmao, so that whole Michael Jackson dying thing was made up by hackars. Amazing. I hate twitter, it will be gone in a few years, bunch o' hype.
and people blame The OS-es
That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!
Please tell me this signals the beginning of the end for the Twitter hype. 4 months ago I didn'nt know what Twitter was. Now I can't even read a darn news story without it mentioning how Twitter was involved.
That's great. The administrator account at my school is "administrator".. brilliant eh?
wot are the most commonly used passwords: sex, money, love, god and password!
You forgot one......"1234"
Damn, now I have to change the code on my luggage.
Dammit I missed this one. My bad.
Lol! No hacker could have figured that one out...sike!
That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!
spaceballs!!
wot are the most commonly used passwords: sex, money, love, god and password!
This was SO the first thing I thought! Hilarious movie!
how about Swordfish?
Maybe they should have made it Joshua?
CAPITOL != CAPITAL
Apparently it's harder than we think.
Hah
This just restores my belief in the fact that no matter how many certifications and how much education you have you can still be an IDIOT! You just get paid very well for it because you have the "paper credentials" for what you are doing.
wow that's better than my password of TH1sIsMyPA5SwOrdDoN@tT3llAnyOn3OrEls3IW1lLHurtYou
I'm surprised the password wasnt "Twitter".
wow that's better than my password of TH1sIsMyPA5SwOrdDoN@tT3llAnyOn3OrEls3IW1lLHurtYou
Make it longer, you need to fill all 63 allowable characters for WPA2, that's only 49. The saddest thing is I've met several people who do 63 random charcters for their WPA2-protected home networks, and yet a huge website like Twitter fails epically in it's choice of passwords.
yeah some one needs to get fired and in the event of them being to 'high up' then probation and salary cut to cover losses. at the very least make it P@ssw0rd or N0ve!!
how about Swordfish?
you would have to be a coder to get that one. =P
Perhaps the administrator took it literally.
"Enter password:"
Input: "password"
"Retype password:"
Input: "password"
Perhaps the administrator took it literally."Enter password:"Input: "password""Retype password:"Input: "password"
Give the guy a break..... He spent a lot of (wasted) money and a (waste of a) lot of time in those classes to get his degree. He was just following the instructions as directed....... I sure am glad that he is not a penetration tester.
They could of at least set their password as "drowssap" like I do.
Way to make it hard to decipher Twitter.
Wow. If it was actually "password" wouldn't some script kiddy already have hacked twitter?
You forgot one......"1234"
... and "qwerty"
hahaha.
Perhaps the administrator took it literally."Enter password:"Input: "password""Retype password:"Input: "password"