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Twitter Warns that Android Users' Private Tweets Were Public for Years

posted by chromas on Tuesday January 22 2019, @05:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the lel dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Twitter said it had discovered a security flaw which meant "protected" tweets became public when some changes were made to accounts.

Anyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have had messages exposed, it said.

Twitter said it had started to let affected users know about the bug.

It added that it had turned the protections back on for Android users who had inadvertently switched them off.

Twitter said it was also issuing a public notice about the error because it could not confirm the exact number of accounts that had been affected and wanted to reach those it could not identify by an internal investigation.

[...] Twitter said it fixed the flaw on 14 January and would share more information if it became available.

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:35AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:35AM (#789977) Journal

    anyone who submitted anything to a web service and thought it was, in any way, private, is delusional.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:43AM (#789979)

    In the DMs

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 22 2019, @08:29AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 22 2019, @08:29AM (#789991) Journal

    Anyone who... is delusional

    Yeees, yes. However, the point of TFA** is 'Is their delusion private or public?' (grin)

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    ** Story: Twitter goes to great lengths to keep intact the delusion their consumers are delusional in private

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:06AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday January 22 2019, @10:06AM (#790010) Journal

      Deluded people beleive deluded company that private meant private when private became public by accident.

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      "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex