A flaw in the protocol used to secure communications over the Internet could have been used to hack Twitter accounts, according to an IBM security researcher.
The concept of retweets was born in the Twitter community. According to ancient legend, Tim O'Reilly initially popularized, and may have invented, the concept of the retweet. Now the Twitter dev team is making them an official feature. In doing so, will they make twitter.com a better alternative to 3rd party clients, at least in the short term?
Twitter feels more and more like an ecosystem these days. Twitter takes features out of clients and rolls them into the API. The client devs incorporate new Twitter features and then extend them. In the end, everybody wins!
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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