Comments on: 5 things Twitter doesn’t want you to know http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/ Latest news from Webeden Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: lynnejenkinson http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#comment-2463 lynnejenkinson Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:15:19 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=938#comment-2463 webeden..Great.....Hacker Go and do something worthwhile with your time, maybe some voluntary work in a charity shop webeden..Great…..Hacker Go and do something worthwhile with your time, maybe some voluntary work in a charity shop

]]> By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#comment-2287 admin Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:06:12 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=938#comment-2287 I think that's you letting me off the hook! You're right about the security issue - and its a point you've raised before. Maybe Twitter is so young that they haven't had time / prioritised these kinds of things. As soon as you go from underdog to main player, peoples attitudes towards you shift. Ken I think that’s you letting me off the hook!

You’re right about the security issue – and its a point you’ve raised before. Maybe Twitter is so young that they haven’t had time / prioritised these kinds of things. As soon as you go from underdog to main player, peoples attitudes towards you shift.

Ken

]]> By: Alison Cross http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#comment-2284 Alison Cross Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:24:26 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=938#comment-2284 It becomes increasingly difficult to think of things in absolutes as you get older, Ken :-) One can always think of mitigating circumstances for just about every type of behaviour... However, when people are just trying to run their business AND minding their own business, how ethical is it to filtch their stuff - including their security data, personnel records etc - by HACKING in? The hacker didn't discover that Twitter was being run by Osama Bin Laden or that they were smuggling children on the side - they stole confidential things that were most definitely NOT in the public's interest to expose. Hmmmm - Perhaps we are missing the point here. Perhaps the point is NOT what was nicked, but the fact that the hacker could get access to this information? Twitter still have security issues, even outside of their product? AX It becomes increasingly difficult to think of things in absolutes as you get older, Ken :-) One can always think of mitigating circumstances for just about every type of behaviour…

However, when people are just trying to run their business AND minding their own business, how ethical is it to filtch their stuff – including their security data, personnel records etc – by HACKING in? The hacker didn’t discover that Twitter was being run by Osama Bin Laden or that they were smuggling children on the side – they stole confidential things that were most definitely NOT in the public’s interest to expose.

Hmmmm – Perhaps we are missing the point here. Perhaps the point is NOT what was nicked, but the fact that the hacker could get access to this information? Twitter still have security issues, even outside of their product?

AX

]]> By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#comment-2271 admin Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:58:18 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=938#comment-2271 Always nice to have a literary reference - I feel a bit more intelligent now ;-) So did we do the wrong thing by publishing this stuff on here? Or is it innocuous enough to not matter? Ken Always nice to have a literary reference – I feel a bit more intelligent now ;-)

So did we do the wrong thing by publishing this stuff on here? Or is it innocuous enough to not matter?

Ken

]]> By: Alison Cross http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/and-finally/5-things-twitter-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#comment-2268 Alison Cross Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:43:26 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=938#comment-2268 Techcrunch have used some common sense (or at least their legal team have!) and outlined the documents that they won't be publishing - security things, job interview details etc. If it costs $1 per annum per twitterer, that's $25m to be shelled out by the end of the year - from a company that's not got any revenue raising ability (yet). They'll run into the same problems that the Facebook people have. Folk love the system, but they don't want to be advertised at all the time. Or have their details sold...... Now, ethically, I do think that it's wrong to take confidential company business and pass it on - unless it is in the public's interest for that to happen. Was it in the public interest for us to know these things? It's interesting, but it only shows them to be (perhaps) a little deluded in their plan for world domination - and will, no doubt, affect their ability to raise more capital from investors. Perhaps this is the goal - to force Twitter's hand into revealing its money-making potential if the investing dries up? But, let's not forget, as Oscar Wilde once said, there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that's not being talked about. AX Techcrunch have used some common sense (or at least their legal team have!) and outlined the documents that they won’t be publishing – security things, job interview details etc.

If it costs $1 per annum per twitterer, that’s $25m to be shelled out by the end of the year – from a company that’s not got any revenue raising ability (yet).

They’ll run into the same problems that the Facebook people have. Folk love the system, but they don’t want to be advertised at all the time. Or have their details sold……

Now, ethically, I do think that it’s wrong to take confidential company business and pass it on – unless it is in the public’s interest for that to happen. Was it in the public interest for us to know these things? It’s interesting, but it only shows them to be (perhaps) a little deluded in their plan for world domination – and will, no doubt, affect their ability to raise more capital from investors. Perhaps this is the goal – to force Twitter’s hand into revealing its money-making potential if the investing dries up?

But, let’s not forget, as Oscar Wilde once said, there is only one thing worse than being talked about and that’s not being talked about.

AX

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