Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter 100
An anonymous reader writes "A Twitter account belonging to an official adviser of the Indonesian president has been broken into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta. Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter. But when he lost control of his account, a tsunami warning was sent out to Twitter users."
And this is why I don't use twitter (Score:1, Interesting)
Really, I don't. I barely trust any of my e-mails, too many I get are offers for things that are obviously not real, or they are simply "phishing" to try to see if they can convince me to visit their website.
Somebody once said we could get rid of the postal service by putting government services on the Internet, and I just cringed. It's bad enough worrying about fraud in the mail, but on the Internet? It's so much worse I don't even want to bother with anything truly important. You can lie to me all you want about the sport's scores, or the latest porn, but don't expect me to do real business.
Re:I pity the fool. (Score:0, Interesting)
Re:I pity the fool. (Score:2, Interesting)
Personally, I resent people calling people like this hackers. There is a big difference from being curious to learn something new and being an idiot. This guy is being a jerk. Hackers learn an innovate. How much brain power does it take to post on Twitter? However, there is a part of me that wants to say that people should really check their sources and not believe something they read on a social networking site.