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7th January 2009 - Link Blog

Weak Password Brings "Happiness" to Twitter Hacker. The full story on the Twitter admin account hack. I bet there are a LOT of web applications out there that don’t track and rate-limit failed password attempts.

Posted 7th January 2009 at 12:04 pm

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