Today's Bad Idea: TweetMyPC
Some people just don't think.
TweetMyPC is an application you can install on your PC. It will read your Twitter feed and execute commands based on your tweets. How did somebody get all the way through writing this app without considering what a supremely poor idea it is? A few problems:
Your Twitter feed is public. Even if you make it private, recent incidents with Twitter should be enough to make you consider it public.
Do you really want the whole world to be able to view all your screenshots?
The entire security model of this app (if it could be considered such) relies on the idea that only you can post things to your Twitter account. Aviv Raff and his month of Twitter bugs are proving this wrong every day.
What is wrong with people? I know I'm a security guy, but seriously, think before you install remote access software for your PC. From the looks of the chatter, a lot of people are using this app already.
Remote desktop works fine, and there's no reason to use Twitter as your carrier. Twitter is not a network protocol. It's not even a great social networking app.
Edit: I'm collecting screenshots of personal information or other sensitive data here. I'll probably write a bot to do this for me soon enough
TweetMyPC is an application you can install on your PC. It will read your Twitter feed and execute commands based on your tweets. How did somebody get all the way through writing this app without considering what a supremely poor idea it is? A few problems:
Your Twitter feed is public. Even if you make it private, recent incidents with Twitter should be enough to make you consider it public.
Do you really want the whole world to be able to view all your screenshots?
The entire security model of this app (if it could be considered such) relies on the idea that only you can post things to your Twitter account. Aviv Raff and his month of Twitter bugs are proving this wrong every day.
What is wrong with people? I know I'm a security guy, but seriously, think before you install remote access software for your PC. From the looks of the chatter, a lot of people are using this app already.
Remote desktop works fine, and there's no reason to use Twitter as your carrier. Twitter is not a network protocol. It's not even a great social networking app.
Edit: I'm collecting screenshots of personal information or other sensitive data here. I'll probably write a bot to do this for me soon enough
posted by mckt at
12:21 PM
2 Comments:
This is great! Do you have an estimate of how many twitter users are using this?
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miscsecurity, At
November 30, 2009 2:06 PM
So far, the traffic in the public twitter feed has been slower than I expected. If all the users are keeping those accounts private (as they should be), that's not necessarily an indication of slow adoption.
As of right now, TweetMyPC v2.0 has 2591 downloads. I'm currently working out sneaky ways to determine where it's being used- will post about that when I have a chance to go over the data.
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mckt, At
November 30, 2009 2:06 PM
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