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Vint Cerf peddles micro-spam
WELL KNOWN father of the internet, Vint Cerf, has been hax0red like a 'net noob.
Spammers managed to worm their way into his Twitter account and post hundreds of messages advertising their wares on auction sites yesterday, in that typically annoying way that spammers do.
The spam then triggered Twitter's 'auto-suspend' threshold, which shut down poor old Vint's account on the spot, leaving him locked out of his own login and looking like he was really keen to make some money on the side from his day job at Google.
Twitter.com/cerf now merely gives an error page from the micro-blogging system, hiding Vint's blushes.
Despite inventing TCP/IP, it seems that Vint can't invent a password that is too difficult to guess. No prize will be awarded for the best guess at Vint's password in the comments. µ
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with a name like "Ferret" I would have though you could have sniffed that out a little better.
wrong. someone set up the account with my name. it was a fake, not a hack.
According to an email he sent to El-Reg, Cerf had nothing to do with this twitter account.