# I would be careful on Twitter today...

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-would-be-careful-on-twitter-today/160603 "2010-09-21T04:47:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-would-be-careful-on-twitter-today/160603/21 "2010-09-21T07:44:15Z")

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> [@sherlock](#):
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> to what? steal peoples info on their computers?

This or use it as a bot. Java exploits can be quite dangerous and are the latest craze right now with the kids.

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-would-be-careful-on-twitter-today/160603/22 "2010-09-21T08:01:36Z")

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> [@sherlock](#):
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> to what? steal peoples info on their computers?

Yes

Capture bank logins, use the PCs to spam, use the PCs for denial of service attacks and various other things.

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-would-be-careful-on-twitter-today/160603/23 "2010-09-21T08:02:26Z")

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Wouldn’t the responsible thing for Twitter to do be to take the site offline until they’ve patched this?

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