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Comment by wamatt

Thanks for that. Not super worried about people knowing my location or games I played :p

However, this is of interest:

>and in some cases (which affected millions of users) completely take over Twitter and Facebook accounts

How is that possible? Are we going to see mass defacements/malware links or other bad stuff on Twitter and Facebook as a result?

Also what is meant by 'take over'? Surely it doesn't mean from a UDID alone, a hacker could log into that associated account with full permissions?

I'm assuming any scripted attack would only have the permissions that any other FB/Twitter app has, and could be blocked in App settings if it started doing 'bad stuff'?

parent wamatt 14 years ago

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