On: An update on our security incident

[heinrichhartman]

What I find most problematic about the attac is the incident response by Twitter.

As people pointed out here, hijacking Twitter accounts can lead to big stock market crashes, mass panics ("bomb found at XXX") and maybe even military escalations.

Under this circumstances, leaving a platform with an unknown number of compromised accounts online, seems irresponsible to me. In such a case you must stop the bleeding ASAP, either by locking up "important" accounts (what they eventually did, after a few hours!) or taking the site offline.

Next time this happens, we might not be so lucky.

[bzb3 → heinrichhartman]

No. We need more things like these to happen so people lose trust on everything they read on the stupid internet.

This was good. I hope it keeps happening.

[bananaface → bzb3]

If they'd taken the site offline then the event probably would have generated more publicity.

[staticassertion → heinrichhartman]

At the same time, it's hard to take down a site that has the type of impact that you're referring to.