On: Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'

[mbid]

Reminder that none of this would be necessary if nobody reused their passwords.

[davidcbc → mbid]

Sure it would. People using Twitter still need to change their password even if it is the only place they use their password.

[mbid → davidcbc]

To defend against what? That some guy at twitter who saw the logs can login and change somebody's status?

Anyway, I guess you're right, I simplified. It is kind of a valid point, although if I was this paranoid then I would never leave the house. I just wanted to say that if the web wouldn't have been built on a giant piece of s*, for example password authentication, none of this would have been necessary.