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On Monday, several high profile “celebrity” Twitter accounts started spouting nonsense, the victims of stolen passwords. Wired has the full story—someone ran a dictionary attack against a Twitter staff member, discovered their password and used Twitter’s admin tools to reset the passwords on the accounts they wanted to steal.

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10:27 pm / 7th January 2009 / counters, django, github, memcached, projects, python, ratelimitcache, ratelimiting, security, twitter

fireeagle_api.py. Steve Marshall’s Fire Eagle python binding on GitHub. # 22nd March 2008, 11:57 pm

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