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Twitter Blames Kid for Hacking Site
Last Thursday was a big day for America: we learned we’d all get by without telling our friends in one hundred forty characters what kind of cereal we had or the size of our kid’s poo.
And for that very big lesson, we can blame . . . a kid.
The attack that kept Twitter down for much of the day and spit out sporadic error messages on Facebook (where I could not wish a happy birthday to any of the dozen people who share that natal day) and other social media is being blamed on a teenager. The folks at Twitter say they think it was a teenager – not a sophisticated programmer – who did the deed.
And this wouldn’t be the first time. The site hired a teen this spring who had kept the site tied up because “he was bored,” and knew he was too young to be prosecuted. Calling himself mikeyy, Michael Mooney is one of the many teens who’s been scooped up by companies (and sometimes municipalities) as tech gurus after hacking their way into places they shouldn’t be.
Maybe I’m just old, but I’m thinking these snot-nosed kids need to get their butts handed to them . . . not a big fat reward for screwing up the adult world. What do you think?
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Greer's Mum commented on Aug 10 09 at 3:02 pmMaybe they are abiding by that old saying “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
Tyler commented on Aug 10 09 at 7:54 pmIf they can’t protect the site from a kid then they deserve it douchebag.
twitter is opsdumb commented on Aug 10 09 at 9:15 pmtwitters ops is pathetic, they also dont scale well, i see major twitter issues if improvements r not made soon
CaptainObvious commented on Aug 10 09 at 9:25 pmNews Flash: Twitter is most definitely NOT the “adult world.”
Chaos Motor commented on Aug 10 09 at 11:57 pm“Maybe I’m just old, but I’m thinking these snot-nosed kids need to get their butts handed to them . . . not a big fat reward for screwing up the adult world. What do you think?”
Absolutely, we should always take the opportunity to punish people who are smarter than us or figure things out that we don’t want them to. We should also punish journalists who investigate stories that might disrupt a business or embarrass the government.
Puppet commented on Aug 11 09 at 11:00 amGet over yourself.
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