Paul Allen tanks another company and screws the investors to boot: Charter Communications, the fourth-largest U.S. cable operator,plans to file a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy by April 1, reports AP. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, reached an agreement with key debt holders. He will keep the largest votign interest in the company, but common stock, which are shareholder stakes, will be wiped out. Allen invested more than $7 billion in Charter.
- Leo Laporte
I did not fall for the recent Phishing scheme so one of three things has happened, my password was hacked through a flaw in Twitter, one of the many services (NOT twply) that I gave my credentials to has hijacked it, or someone guessed the password.
- Leo Laporte
Yep, spam and mlm are going to be a massive problem for Twitter mainly because spammers have a business model and twitter does not, here's an article I wrote on this topic just before Christmas http://experiencecurve.com/archive...
- karl
I figured there would be some good conversation on TWiT regarding the hacks, now even more so.
- Matt Mutz
This is not about pfishing.. this is something else
- Ian D. Nock
i'll assume you put a strong password on somehow, yes? So that would mean something gave away your password or there was a bored hacker somewhere that zapped you...sorry to hear that....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
That's Harsh. It had to have been Kevin Rose. He knew you were on to him
- Marcus Beagley
@Leo - Maybe one of those third party services isn't securely storing your credentials and it was stolen from them. I'm saying that maybe the third party isn't malicious, just careless.
- Mitch
Leo, the Twitter official blog says they reset the passwords on your behalf
- David Lloyd
Was Leo using Power Twitter at the time? New App new problem, coincidence?
- SkiCat56
Get on the Red Phone and get @ev on the line. I've always knew giving out login credentials to 3rd party apps would lead to this. I like ping.fm and FF's use of an API key a lot better.
- Dave Senior
Twitter needs to say more about what it was.. but my feeling this is something in the infrastructure or through people ... after all, Obama has not used his account for sometime.
- Ian D. Nock
And you can bet that no-one messes around with all the apps using that account
- Ian D. Nock
Well let's hope they don't make any horrible statements on your behalf about your sexual orientation or organs. :-)
- Dave Winer
Twitter should use also something like apikey like ff, password for controlling your account and apikey for getting your content... or something like that :)
- tanel
I heard from a reliable twitter account that Bill O'Reily is hot for manflesh....
- Mitch
No self-respecting gay man wants Bill O'Reilly. Not. A. One.
- Derrick
Twitter may have reset my password but they haven't told me yet. Maybe they need my email?
- Leo Laporte
I bet they wished they had followed Dave's advice about the authentication key thingy xx
- David Lloyd
I'm not a celebrity so probably no need to worry, but I changed my password nonetheless.
- Herb Hernandez
That's why I don't use 3rd party web services, don't trust any. Also Log-in on twitter.com using https.
- Jay Barcelo
Is Power Twitter one of the culprits??? I might have to uninstall it.
- Roberto Bonini
New official blog post says "These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can't remember or get stuck"
- David Lloyd
Good grief! This is getting ridiculous.
- Bill Sodeman
Hey now.. that's not cool. What did Leo ever do to you? Albrecht voices/suspects a hack on Diggnation podcast and now this?
- Jamie Wareham
Geez Leo what a pain. I am sorry to hear....
- Rob Cairns
Is nothing sacred anymore? Seriously, Leo's Twitter!
- Mike Syrek
is there second email facility for twitter, like gmail does?
- marx
Same here, actually. I haven't been able to log in or to reset my password since about 11am today. I did not fall for the phishing attack either. I was using Power Twitter, which I installed yesterday. I can still update Twitter and get my DMs via SMS, but otherwise I'm locked out. Thankfully, there are no stray posts yet on my timeline. I sent Twitter a bug report through their help screen earlier today, but haven't heard back from them yet.
- alex de carvalho
Power twitter did NOT affect my account at all. That's just a Firefox add on and it does NOT ask for your password, so I doubt that would be an issue. I think this is more of a pointed attack to go for twitter's management; PR attack. Notice how pointed the accounts are that were hacked -- many *high profile* accounts...that's not a mistake, that was done on purpose. Leo was a victim and I hope they catch that / those jerks!
- Susan Beebe
My thoughts are with your wife, Leo. It can't be easy staying behind, no matter how beautiful the country is. Hopefully she will be with you again shortly.
- Eric Geller
Welcome home, Leo! Glad you made it back in one piece, best of luck to Jennifer.
- teleken
Man, Jason, you've been railing against GM for days now! Did they do something to you when you were a kid?
- Richard Klein
from twhirl
I bought--what should've been--a lemon from them once.
- Valley
you have to put them all on their knees in the corner and push to read Atlas Shrugged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... until they _may_be_ start to understand :)
- A. T.
Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.
- Leo Laporte
Why don't you start your own podcast? I'm sure GoDaddy and others would hop on as advertisers! Get a TubeMogul account and be your own syndicate company! Heck... Contact @moth at NextNewNetworks and pitch a show... start up a wiki and look for some volunteers for writing and motion graphics... YOU CAN DO IT....
- Taiwan Brown
I just have one thing to ask. How naked?
- Josh Haley
as they say in Azeroth, screenshot or it didn't happen.
- Chris Hollander
Leo, I offered to ensure she had good beer by sending her some of our awesome home craft brews (www.gatheringbrews.com). I simply await the request, and I'll send enough to get her through the next election :)
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
@Brian Norwood Sorry, my condolences on your unemployment, but offer only good to Sarah Lane :) We're firm supporters of naked electioneering and Pop Sirens. Wait, that doesn't sound right...
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Yes, RTM is a superb app that deserves greater recognition. There is no sync program for my Palm Treo, but the mobile web app works great, and I also love the Gmail, Gcal, and iGoogle integration.
- Andrew Carpenter
from Alert Thingy
When i was looking for a todo list there was RTM or Hiveminder. RTM has more features but seemed harder to use and didn't have Hiveminder's braindump feature which I've found is great to just sit and hammer out tasks and then go back and organize them.
- Bryan
I liek RTM but the UI is a bit week. Hiveminder has some awesome features, but the ui is also dense and its in (gak) Perl. So it wont scale.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Is that how God blesses America? And those starving elsewhere are being...?
- Friends of Lost
Wow, way to take a happy thread to a real crappy place, FoL. Life, the world, blessings - none of this is a closed pie system. Just because one person "has" doesn't necessarily follow that others "don't have." You don't have to take away from one to give to another. If you're looking for answers on the nature of God and his blessings, the FriendFeed comments are not it. I'd suggest consulting a religious leader, theologian, or at least, a religion reference website.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Hey! That's what I had for dinner too!
- Sue Murphy
Did you save me some of that Leo? Good grief!
- Todd Jordan