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wmf
on Jan 5, 2009
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Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney...
More users -> more attackers -> more holes found.
Herring
on Jan 5, 2009
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Attackers can only find holes that are there to begin with.
wmf
on Jan 6, 2009
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There are always holes.
Herring
on Jan 6, 2009
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Some architectures are more resistant than others. I suppose you could break into some air gapped military computers -- if you had a nuke.
why are we even discussing this?
sanswork
on Jan 6, 2009
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Or someone on your payroll on the inside.
Herring
on Jan 6, 2009
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Well that's universal. You can't exactly protect against someone who's also supposed to hold the keys to the system. Its more a feature than a bug.
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