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GoDaddy requires 6 digits, but the agent let the attacker guess 2 of them (repeatedly, until he got it right). That's truly awful.
I thought everyone knew not to use GoDaddy after the SOPA incident. Hopefully this will convince more people to move their domains to a domain registrar that cares about its customers.
One thing that people should realize in why Twitter may not respond to these kinds of issues, or may be slow to respond, is that it's probably true that lots of people buy and sell Twitter accounts, and people may report them stolen when in fact they've already sold them to someone. This kind of thing happened a lot in MMO games which is why they try to push account security into your hands so they don't have to atte…
Why would a company ever ever ever accept 6 digits of a credit card number as a way to authenticate an identity?? Credit card numbers are not secure. Therefore, they should not ever be accepted as authentication. Especially only 6 digits of it! This is by far the most shocking part of this story. As if I needed another reason to despise GoDaddy. [Edited to add] I would sure love to see a scarlet letter list of compan…
I don't work in that department, but I'll forward the page to the CEO and make sure it gets read and addressed.
I feel bad for this guy, and twitter needs to do the right thing and return to him his handle. Then I can come back here and post nasty comments about squatters.
I feel bad for this guy, and twitter needs to do the right thing and return to him his handle. Then I can come back here and post nasty comments about squatters.
Any thoughts why the attacker would tell the guy how he did it if this is the obvious solution?
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He's definitely a squatter. If you own something and you don't use it, you're a squatter. I own an old original Nintendo that I haven't used all year. That's why if someone comes into my house and takes it, it's my own fault.
I understand it was a sarcasm, but there's one difference between the two. A Twitter handle or a domain name is something unique as opposed to a game console of which there were millions of copies.
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He's definitely a squatter. If you own something and you don't use it, you're a squatter. I own an old original Nintendo that I haven't used all year. That's why if someone comes into my house and takes it, it's my own fault.
I understand it was a sarcasm, but there's one difference between the two. A Twitter handle or a domain name is something unique as opposed to a game console of which there were millions of copies.