Surprising really. They didn't nuke the phpinfo() thing for yonks (have they even done it yet?) but they yanked that URL in a matter of hours. Funny, eh?

"Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable to serious viral attack"

Twitter and the like (facebook, myspace, youtube, et alii) ARE serious viral attacks. That's why they are blocked at the boarder routers for all the companies I consult for ...

Surley you know that blocking access to these sites is a breach of employees human rights. Youll be telling me next that you expect them to turn up on time.......

Noscript, noscript, noscript, noscript

That is all.

Or you could use a service like Tweetree.com to view your Twitter stream. Tweetree follows through all the short urls and pulls in their final destination and page title so you know what to expect before clicking on it.

AC: You seem to think I'm talking about toy operating systems ... I mean, seriously, A/V software? WTF? My exact methodology is unimportant. It works. Many other sysadmins do similar. Yes, it could loosely be called "IDS". Using proxies to get around the blocks is a firing offense, even though the attempt would probably be unsuccessful. Remember, these are WORK machines, not toys at home.

Chris: It was late. Mea culpa :-)

David: Most people don't understand that company computers belong to the shareholders, not the workers using the machines ...

""A Twitter representative has yet to return our email."

Because email is _so_ Web-1.0"

THAT, my friends, is one of the problems with the Web2.0 crowd. They have absolutely no concept of the history & inner workings of teh intratubes. As a hint to the AC, I was sending and receiving "email" back in the late 70s. From home. Long before the Web existed. For our current standard's roots, metacrawler RFC 821, published in 1982.

We had instant messaging in the late '70s, too. metacrawler "talk +UNIX" ... Kids these days!