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2009 7 Jan
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This wired.com blog article explains how a 18 year old hacker who’s been hacking for 3 years now was able to hack into a twitter admin account (using a pw guessing tool/dictionary hack) and then use and admin PW reset feature to give away passwords for 33 accounts including the accounts of President Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News. This incident goes to show that:
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