A Hungarian website Webisztán has found a privacy flaw in Twitter, the micro-blogging service. Twitter lets users set their messages to private so that everyone cannot see it. The Hungarian website has found a way to bypass that barricade.
According to Valleywag:
To see anyone else’s private, friends-only messages, pick one of the user’s friends, and then substitute their user name in this URL:
SAI tried it out and it did work. They have put public a private message involving Facebook executive Dave Morin and Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Vascellaro. The later had set her account private. Following is the message:
Lets see how much time twitter will require to fix this bug.
via [Silicon Alley Insider]
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