Twitter Security Breach, Blog 2

Twitter, as we all know, is an extremely large and rapidly growing social media site. A lot of people are using it, including large corporations, and important members of society. Even Mr. Obama and his wife are on twitter, or at least someone is tweeting for them. It turns out that twitter had a hole in its security and there was a widespread of links being indirectly passed from person to person through the means of third parties. The victims did nothing more than scroll over the link before they were directed to new sites and advertisements. This issue, of course, is very scary. Even though twitter patched the issue within hours, it breaches confidentiality. One should think twice before posting their information on the world wide web, and realize the risk they are taking in using media websites such as Twitter. As technology advances in intelligence, so do the evil villains of the internet world. Additionally, the links that were being inadvertently accessed by unsuspecting users could have been rigged with viral codes and other serious attacks. What would have happened if these viruses effected the computer of the white house? The effects could have been way worse than the inconveniently placed pop-up, spam or pornographic image. I wouldn’t put much more than a minimum amount of trust in twitter’s privacy policy after this intimidating event.

Information Source: The Christian Science Monitor