Tag Archives: Twitter
Twitter is cool
I tweet and have done for over 4 years. Some of you may have found this and other blogs by tweet. It has really changed the amount of ‘connected’ness that I have with everyone I know and some that I don’t. The following video is a bit of an advert but it pretty much sums [...]
Password Management – Epilogue
It has been a little over a week now since the Twitter password hack, which we now know to have been hack allowed by a system design flaw in the authentication system used by them, combined with human factors. A standard dictionary attack was used with a list of known words (combined with single or [...]
Extra-meeting comms – the water cooler/coffee machine
Just read a post and could not help but comment on it…. Twitter is the water cooler for the Mobile worker, the work at home worker, the telecommuter. I can only wholeheartedly agree with Andrew’s views, particularly now as I follow more and more people in the UK as Twitter has taken off. The only [...]
Password Management
The recent Twitter hacks and the password change that ensued brought to mind approaches that are followed for password management. Now please forgive the heresies I am about to commit. The standard approach to password management is to have a complex and different password per service and change it often… like once a month. This [...]