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Who is derGeruhn, account that 40,000 Tweetdeck users involuntarily retweeted?

by HistoryInAction on 6/11/14, 6:06 PM with 7 comments

• by diminoten on 6/11/14, 6:39 PM

  I don't understand how the two could even be construed to be related (the DDoS and the Tweetdeck XSS vuln).

  Guy sees vuln, decides to exploit it "humorously" (as humorous as a German can get, that is, heh), and now WaPo is writing about how they're apparently not related?

  Why would they be related in the first place? Am I missing something? This seems like a report on the fact that it's cloudy today, which is apparently unrelated to the stock market being down. No shit?

• by danso on 6/11/14, 6:31 PM

  > His tweets don’t, unfortunately, appear to reveal any link between Perdana and this mysterious string of DDoS attacks. We’ve reached out to Perdana for further explanation on that score, and will update this post if we hear back from him.

  Uh...maybe the OP isn't a tech writer, but don't Perdana's tweets, at least the one with the XSS exploit, explicitly reveal a link to the DDoS? If it forces an auto-retweet, then everyone tweeting at once would seem very much like a DDoS

• by joeblau on 6/11/14, 6:44 PM

  I thought something was wrong with Twitter on Sunday. My desktop Twitter client was automatically favoriting and retweeting everything @pmarca said. He joked and said that's how it's support to work, but I was wondering if it happened to anyone else.