{"id":763,"date":"2009-11-05T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T07:47:41","slug":"twitter-bug-exposes-private-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/twitter-bug-exposes-private-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Bug Exposes Private Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The security hole, first reported by\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #409ed3;\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2009\/10\/twitter-see-protected-tweets.html\" target=\"_blank\">The L.A. Times<\/a>, reveals that, by just typing \u201csite:twitter.com\/*username*\u201d (replacing *username* with the\u00a0<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Twitter<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; color: #409ed3; width: 12px;\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.blippr.com\/apps\/336651-Twitter.whtml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blippr.com\/apps\/336651-Twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 4px !important; vertical-align: middle; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; padding: 1px !important; border: 0px !important solid !important #c9d6dd !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/netdna.blippr.com\/images\/inline-face_07.png?1251418262\" alt=\"Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span> name of a protected account), you can see most or all of the tweets of an account. And it\u2019s already being used to see the tweets of\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #409ed3;\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/billclinton\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, while you can\u2019t directly access a protected Twitter account,\u00a0<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Google\u2019s<span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; color: #409ed3; width: 12px;\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.blippr.com\/apps\/336661-Google.whtml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blippr.com\/apps\/336661-Google\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 4px !important; vertical-align: middle; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; padding: 1px !important; border: 0px !important solid !important #c9d6dd !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/netdna.blippr.com\/images\/inline-face_07.png?1251418262\" alt=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span> crawling bots can pass right by without any problem. By looking at the Google results, you can get a sense of what that person is tweeting about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re one of the about 10% of Twitter users that protect your tweets, watch out, because anybody can read them with a simple Google search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2871],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-cj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}