Archive for June, 2009



Hackers Send Out Fake Death Tweets!

June 30th, 2009

Hackers have been sending out fake death tweets of famous people like Britney Spears.  Although the matter has been revolved already, (what seems to be caused by TwitPic) it’s interesting to note that Twitter has the power to spread false rumors as much as real ones.

Twitpic fixed this vulnerability by Monday and in an apology letter explained that the hackers tried every PIN combination possible until one worked. Now, Twitpic says a “fix has been put in place to prevent this from happening,” and that less than 10 users were affected by the hack and “no account information was compromised.”

via cnet

Twitter Hack – How to Twitter on a Commodore 64!

June 24th, 2009

Are you joking me?  Why are people suddenly trying to twitter on very old computers?  Well, regardless of reason, it’s cool that you can recycle old computers to “tweet”.  This could possibly make them useful enough to not throw away.

With BREADBOX64 you can post status messages and view your friends timeline. The timeline refreshes every two minutes.  After starting you provide your twitter username and password separated by a colon. After pressing enter, the timeline is retrieved and shown. At the bottom of the screen there is an input field for you to type aq status message. Pressing enter will post that message to twitter.

You can run BREADBOX64 on a C64 emulator. I use VICE, because that one supports networking. However, you can better test it on a real system if you have the hardware ready at hand. If so, copy the D64 to a real disk, put it in your 1541 and go ahead!

via vandenbrande

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Twitter Hack – How to Make a Twitter TypeWriter!

June 23rd, 2009

For those of you who are tired of watching your 20″ LCD screen for the latest tweets, there’s another way of reading your tweets via a Typewriter!

The folks at Oomlout.co.uk have figured out how to connect an arduino and ethernet module to monitor the search term “Oomlout” and automatically type out the latest tweet relating to that keyword.

It search’s for a term every 10 seconds (in our case ‘oomlout’ although ‘#haiku’ is good fun too). When a new tweet is posted it will proceed to whir to life and type it out (at the same time making us feel like we’re back in the 1970s).

This should be actually a pretty easy project as most typewriters support RS232 communication.  You can also check out their Typewriter Twitter @Oomlout.

via hackaday

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