Twitter was taken down by the last trick known to the "hacker" community. Oh sure, passwords still get stolen and personal information still gets used to humiliate the semi-public figures of the Internet, but it's all done in a remarkably low-tech manner, using the digital equivalent of old-style private eyes. All that's left for script kiddies is the poor distributed denial of service, used indiscriminately for destroying racist talk show hosts or random AT&T customers. Like a Sergio Leone v
Twitter gets DOSed, 4Chan not Responsible?
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