A 17-Year Old Caused Yesterday’s Twitter Mess [Twitter]

Sep 22nd 2010
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An 17-year old Australian is taking responsibility for unwittingly causing yesterday’s Twitter bug . While the teen didn’t directly bring the flood of spam and porn retweets, he burst open the dam. I assume that passes for precociousness recently?

The trouble began when the Melbourne-based high school student decide to discover the safety flaw that created the havoc by tweeting some onMouseOver Javascript code. The vulnerability had first been dropped at Twitter’s attention a month ago

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