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Twitter Exploit Warning: How Anyone Can Easily Snatch Your Direct Messages (searchenginewatch.com)
3 points by nreece on Oct 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


So... applications that you give your Twitter login information to can then misuse that information? Colour me surprised. </sarcasm>

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seems like the author's sekrit hack is forcing people to log in to your wordpress site with their Twitter information, and then misusing that information. But frankly, I'm not logging into anything but Twitter with my Twitter information.


uh. accessing your account, once you authenticate, is in the API.




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