Hacker disrupts economy of annoying Twitter-based game An annoying Twitter-based game has been exploited through a Robin Hood-style attack involving the transfer of imaginary funds. Spymaster is the micro-blogging equivalent of the Zombies application popular on Facebook a year or so ago. Would-be Jason Bournes who sign onto the programme get points for recruiting users to their " …
"You have been scammed by the money launderers and should blame them for any financial issues you have" ... we zeroed your account balance.
Talk about disingenuous - Are they 'avin a farkin larf ?
Can you imagine this happening in the real world; someone drops a fake couple of million in your account so the banks take that couple of million plus whatever was legitimately there !
Serves the twats in twitter land right. Welcome to Web 2.0 and the wankers that run it.
Made my day. ROTFLMAO.
"Ferguson's write-up of the hack, which uncovered flaws in poorly-written code, can be found here"
So that's a report on flaws in an imaginary game on top of annoying platform. If he's not got anything better to do then surely he could run for home sec - at least being a technologist he might have more of a clue than soon to be ex wacky jacqui...
I readily admit I'm an old fart who doesn't stand a chance of "getting a clue" in this web 2.summat world, but could someone just explain to me if there is ANYTHING useful achived by this twitter nonsense?
A vanity press for electronic Post-It notes from where I'm sitting, I've still to get an inkling what the hell it's supposed to be *for*.
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