Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them 143
Several readers have sent word of a Twitter bug which has been allowing users to make any other user follow them by simply tweeting "accept [username]." People have been abusing it to make the accounts of various celebrities and publications follow them. Twitter acknowledged the bug and disabled the follow/unfollow system until they can get it fixed.
Bug fixed (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blue Box (Score:4, Informative)
yep, telcos operated on the "security by obscurity" system. Only their own personnel should in theory know the unlisted numbers to the switches and so on. But thanks to anything from grabbing manuals from the back of repair trucks, to wardailing whole area codes, this didnt work in the long run.
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