Twitter bans security maven for sharing naughty link
Found on The Register on Friday, 09 October 2009
A well known security researcher was banished from Twitter for more than two days for including the address of a malicious website in a two-month-old dispatch.
No, it wasn't a direct message, and no, there was no malware involved with the site. And yes, the URL contained spaces to prevent the security challenged from accidentally visiting the site.
As The Reg and plenty of others have pointed out, the site has become a hot bed for come ons that try to trick people into visiting sites that steal their personal information or install malware.
That hyped site is one of the most useless dot-com bubbles these days. It enforces a ridiculous posting limit, so that even the messages from their officials look like the blabbering of a texting 12 year old.