This recently happened in Australia [Telstra outage]
Telstra had a major service outage resulting in messages being missent all over the place!!
As has been pointed out, SMS can be unreliable.
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@wkleem: Wow! I hadn't heard about that. I think that the randomness makes it less of a security risk, but that is at least only security by obscurity and not any kind of real benefit — more of an "it could have been worse" — and that's pretty horrific from a privacy standpoint. But yeah, I generally think of SMS being insecure, and less about the unreliability of this antiquated communications standard. :unamused:
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Imagine getting someone else's TOTP or someone else getting yours! From the article, there was a deal in progress that was intercepted by an uninvited party.
""I could have broken this guy's deal wide open," said Twitter user @IggyBusby, on receiving details of someone's business strategy that included the phrases "hold off on the" and "still in discussions with"."
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There is an issue here which is that copying and pasting @ "user handle" can lead to non existent users.
""I could have broken this guy's deal wide open," said Twitter user @IggyBusby, on receiving details of someone's business strategy that included the phrases "hold off on the" and "still in discussions with"."
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Indeed. Unfortunately the forum software using the same @ mention as Twitter means that typing anything preceded by that symbol will treat it as a forum username. The forums actually support displaying tweets inline with the URL, but that one seems to have been deleted already.
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The Twitter user "Iggy Busby" has set his acount to retain day old tweets only. Everything else is deleted at the end of the day.
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Ha! I didn't even know that was possible. Shows you how often I use Twitter. :lol:
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Looks like we both learned something new here. I last checked my Twitter account months ago!!
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I had a look at Twitter settings and still cannot figure out how to limit tweets to a specified duration (days, weeks etc)
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Maybe he's using a client app to do this:
I had a look at Twitter settings and still cannot figure out how to limit tweets to a specified duration (days, weeks etc)
You could tweet him to ask. :)
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Thanks sjk for the suggestion. I spend so little time on Twitter that it may not be worthwhile asking!
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:+1: :)
Ben
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I should follow Agilebits on Twitter which will give me a reason to use Twitter more often!
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Gotcha. Great! :)
Ben
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