Oldest Twitter User died at age 104

UK's oldest Tweeter Ivy Bean dies at 104

Ivy Bean was proud of her friendship with pop star Peter Andre.

Britain's oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104, staff at her care home have said.

Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service.
Pat Wright, manager of Hillside Manor where Mrs Bean lived, broke the news on her Twitter feed.
Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook. She soon attracted attention for being the oldest "tweeter".
Her celebrity followers included singer Peter Andre, Chris Evans and ex-prime minister's wife Sarah Brown.
"You could not dislike Ivy," said Mrs Wright.
"She didn't have a bad word to say about anybody. She was a real lady, an inspiration."
Mr Andre, who met Mrs Bean in September 2009, said he was "saddened to hear that Ivy has passed away" and offered his condolences to her family.
"She was a lovely woman who had a brilliant sense of humour and we have stayed in touch since we met."
Media gaze Mrs Bean accessed social networks using a computer given to the home by the local social services authority in 2007.
Although the machine was originally intended for staff training purposes, staff decided to open it up to residents, said Mrs Wright.
Soon after joining Facebook in 2007, Mrs Bean was soon receiving 15-16,000 messages a day. She was introduced to Twitter one year later.
Her tweets were about her daily life and her friends.
Her last one on 6 July read: "going to have my lunch now will be back later".
Mrs Wright had looked after her Twitter feed while she was in hospital, after being taken ill in June.
Mrs Bean enjoyed the publicity that surrounded her, she said.
"She loved every minute of it. The media was a big part of her life. She would not have expected to go quietly."
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NEW Facebook Group Feature, adds to groups automatically

The problems started on Thursday, the day after Facebook revamped groups, giving users a way to compartmentalize their Facebook lives and post certain items to pre-designated groups of people. That's when technology blogger Michael Arrington, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis all found themselves added to a group called NAMBLA. It wasn't immediately clear what this page was set up for, but NAMBLA is an acronym for the completely unsavory North American Man/Boy Love Association. (For South Park fans, it refers to the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes).

Mahalo CEO Calacanis quickly fired off an email to Zuckerberg Calacanis quickly fired off an email to Zuckerberg saying that he was troubled to have been added to the group without being given the opportunity to opt in.

That was followed by general confusion, with some reporting that Facebook's new feature could be used to unilaterally add anyone to a group.

But that isn't the case. The groups feature now lets users automatically add existing friends to groups, but they can't do this with people they don't know.

How did Zuckerberg get added to NAMBLA then? That's all down to tech blogger Arrington. "I typed in his name and hit enter,' Arrington wrote on TechCrunch. "He's my Facebook friend, I therefore have the right to add him."

Arrington added that "as soon as Zuckerberg unsubscribed I lost the ability to add him to any further groups at all, another protection against spamming and pranks."

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed that group members can only add their friends to the group. "If you have a friend that is adding you to groups you do not want to belong to, or they are behaving in a way that bothers you, you can tell them to stop doing it, block them or remove them as a friend -- and they will no longer ever have the ability to add you to any group," she wrote in an e-mail. "If you don't trust someone to look out for you when making these types of decisions on the site, we'd suggest that you shouldn't be friends on Facebook."

Facebook Friends can also send messages and tag photos of other friends. Neither of these features has generated any type of outcry.

Arrington himself was added to the group by someone named Jon Fisher, one of Arrington's 4,824 Facebook friends. Fisher is also one of Calacanis's 4,740 friends.

Still, there is something disquieting about the way groups works, according to Chet Wisniewski, a senior security advisor with Sophos. He's concerned with the fact that people cannot opt out of the groups sign-up feature. "I'm uncomfortable with the idea that other people can determine what I display," he said. "The fact that it can't be opted out of, to me, seems a bit strange."

Facebook's groups Help Center confirms that there's simply no way to prevent people from adding you to groups. And the critics say that rather than being added automatically, friends should be given the choice to opt into any groups.

In a sign that Calacanis and Wisniewski may be onto something, online affiliate marketers have begun speculating about how the feature could be misused to drive traffic to marketing Web sites -- a current favorite form of Facebook abuse. "If you were to make a group named AT&T and decided to make a few 'official' Facebook spokesperson accounts to add to the fun, you could essentially launch a campaign offering FREE WIRELESS SERVICE FOR EVERYONE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER," wrote a poster named Jon to the Wickedfire.com Internet marketing forum.

This Jon also claimed to have set up a fake NAMBLA page.

"Seeing as how crowd manipulation and influence over the interwebz is sooooooo easy already, plus tack on this as a social parody of sorts, and poof, you have yourself a publicity nightmare on a scale that would be spreading far more rapidly than any BP oil spill ever could," he added.

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Joke: The best chess Player

A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. "I can hardly believe my eyes!" he exclaimed. "That's the smartest dog I've ever seen." "Nah, he's not so smart," the friend replied. "I've beaten him three games out of five." -

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Internet Explorer held Twitter bug for 2 years

Microsoft Investigates Two-Year-Old Bug In Internet Explorer

Microsoft is looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts.
The bug can allow hackers to hijack Web mail accounts, steal data and send illicit tweets, Google security engineer Chris Evans said in a message posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list.
Evans also published a demonstration that showed how the flaw in IE8 could be used to commandeer a user's Twitter account and send unauthorized tweets.
The vulnerability, known as a "CSS cross-origin theft" bug, has a long history. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who recently published a paper ( download PDF ) on the subject, have traced it back as far as 2002. Those researchers will present their paper at the Conference on Computer and Communications Security next month.
Even so, the flaw received little attention until Evans blogged about it in December 2009 . He had submitted a bug report for Chrome eight months earlier.
Although Microsoft has not patched the vulnerability in IE8, other browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, have fixed the flaw. Google patched the bug in Chrome last January, while Mozilla did the same in July with Firefox 3.6.7 and Firefox 3.5.11.
IE9 includes a fix for the vulnerability. Microsoft plans to ship a public beta of IE9 on Sept. 15.
On Friday, Evans explained why he was adding to the patch pressure by crafting a proof-of-concept. "I have been unsuccessful in persuading the vendor to issue a fix," he said of Microsoft.
Microsoft issued a statement Friday saying it was investigating Evans' reports, but declined to answer questions on Monday, including whether earlier versions of IE were vulnerable or why it has not yet addressed the bug.
"We're currently unaware of any attacks trying to use the claimed vulnerability or of customer impact," said Jerry Bryant, a group manager with the Microsoft Security Response Center, in the e-mailed statement.
Microsoft should not have been surprised by Evans' disclosure. In early August, Evans blogged that IE8 was the "most vulnerable" to the flaw. In that blog, Evans also said he had a proof-of-concept able to appropriate a Web mail account. "It's a nasty attack," Evans said, "E-mail someone a link and if they click it, they are owned with a pure browser cross-origin bug."
This isn't the first time that someone from Google has released information about a bug in Microsoft software after claiming he got the cold shoulder. Earlier this summer, Tavis Ormandy -- like Evans a Google security researcher -- went public with a Windows flaw after he said Microsoft wouldn't commit to a patching deadline. Microsoft disputed Ormandy's account.
Microsoft eventually pushed up the patch date for Ormandy's bug by a month.
On Friday, Bryant reiterated Microsoft's position on early disclosures. "To minimize risk to computer users, Microsoft continues to encourage coordinated vulnerability disclosure," he said, referring to his company's new term for keeping vulnerability information secret until a patch is available.
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