Hilarious! This was supposed to be the new wave, tech savvy administration!

This is hardly hacking, just a lot of detective and guesswork, basicly he went to the extreme of looking for someone's password hint. If an administrator for Twitter is dumb enough to have a simple password then it deserved to be broken into. Twitter should really tighten their security.

This is no different to how thousands of facebook and myspace pages are broken into every day. I've done it myself using a facebook page someone made for their dog. Facebook requested their birthdate for access, I found they had a page for their dog, the dog had their birthday...easy

Hence the reason I dont use any of those $2 padlock security social networking sites.

I say kudos to the kid, give him a job, he obviously knows what he's doing

That allows this:
"He had managed to secure Twitter's administrator codes and was able to create, modify or delete accounts at will."

Why are administrator accounts accesible from anywhere, on any machine? Isn't there *any* red-flagging of attempts? -- I suppose there may be too many of them to do so, but that simply points up that it's possible to do from anywhere.

This seems to me a problem that should have been solved long ago. Access needs to be tied to specific systems. One way, off the top of my head, would be to edit Firefox's about:config user agent string to a custom one that the server then checks for in the request header.

He's not a Genius: He's a very naughty boy!

There fixed that for you.

Damnit how did you miss the obligatory Monty quote!