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sorenj replied on August 02, 2008 01:48 to the problem "EXTREMELY CRITICAL SECURITY ISSUE" in Plurk:

I thought you had to be friends too... but... it just happend to me today... so either I'm friends with the other person and just did not know it (unlikely, but possible) or you don't have to be. Also when you send a PP from inside a thread there is no pic.

Mind you, I would encourage anyone to (as I did) double check who you are sending too before hitting send. However, that does not change the fact that sending to the wrong person is more than possible, it is very easy to do.

sorenj replied on August 01, 2008 18:42 to the problem "EXTREMELY CRITICAL SECURITY ISSUE" in Plurk:

I think there are two very real issues to be considered here.

1. Impersonation, there are a lot of people who have invested time and energy in building an online brand. While I'm not over protective of business brands, there are some people out there doing very good things for other people and organizations that could be compromised by one misguided person will ill will. Not good.

2. Embarrassing situations. I have a very close friend that lives in another state, her state happens to be her username. Someone else, completely innocently, has changed their nick to be the state name as well. Today I nearly sent some very personal information to the person with the nick (not the actual user) because I saw their name as a responder to a plurk and sent a private plurk from the drop down menu next to their name. I happend to look down and notice that the name was different before I hit "plurk" and avoided the mess. But, it is my opinion that I should not have to worry about accidentally sending private information to the wrong person because they chose a nick that duplicates a user name.

I hope my rambling makes sense :)

thx, sbj

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sorenj replied on July 03, 2008 15:04 to the problem "I'm concerned about email security on Plurk" in Plurk:

Hello Amir, As of about 30 seconds ago the problem still existed (I just created a test account and friended myself to be sure. If you would like to see the header information I'd be happy to send it to you, just let me know how to do so :)

thx, sbj

sorenj reported a problem in Plurk on June 25, 2008 21:29:

I'm concerned about email security on Plurk

When someone clicks on "add XXX as a friend" plurk sends an email asking for confirmation of the friendship. In the header of that email is the email address of the person requesting the friendship.

This is a privacy related deal breaker for me and I will not be adding any new friends until it is fixed.

thx, sbj

A comment on the idea "I'd like to be able to tag the people I follow, then filter timeline by tag" in Twitter:

Long-winded though it may have been, it was a good one. For the time being, that approach helps a little. Great info... thanks! – sorenj, on May 09, 2008 16:14

sorenj replied on May 09, 2008 15:03 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

This is an interesting thread, and something that would be very cool (probably more so for the people following me than for me!). I'd like to add to the thoughts of Ross about applying this concept to receiving rather than posting. I started a seperate thread (before I saw this one) here

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

I'm not sure if it makes sense to continue the conversation here, or over there, so I'll let you all decide. However, I would like a little more discussion on that aspect of this (unless it is just me and Ross that are interested, of course :)

thx, sbj

sorenj replied on May 09, 2008 14:58 to the idea "I'd like to be able to tag the people I follow, then filter timeline by tag" in Twitter:

Thanks for the link mdy, I enjoyed reading all of the conversation and I think the groups thing is a great idea. However, as I read it, that thread only casually touches on what I'm looking for. More to the point, except for one short comment at the end, it is kind of the opposite of what I'm advocating.

I'm not interested in limiting who see's my posts (although some of my follwers might be ;), I'm interested in limiting what posts I see from time to time, topically. For example, if I'm having a conversation with fellow bloggers, I might want to filter my view (via tag) at that time to just the bloggers I follow. If I want to see what my family and friends have said in the past couple of hours, I'd rather just filter by family and view those posts. etc.

I think many, if not most, users might not have the critical mass of people they follow to make this uber-valuable, but once you get to 300 or 400 it really becomes difficult to keep up with what is being said.

The tags would not be things the people I follow would designate or opt into, they would be tags I assign to them, enabling me to filter what I see in my time line from time to time.

I hope this makes sense :)

It also seems like it would be considerably easier to implement then a full groups module. I don't think it would be that difficult to write a wrapper over twitter to do it, I'd just prefer it was in the application itself :)

sorenj shared an idea in Twitter on May 08, 2008 19:49:

I'd like to be able to tag the people I follow, then filter timeline by tag

It would be nice to be able to tag people I follow (e.g. blogger, marketing, family, personal, whatever) then filter based on those tags.

As the number of people I follow grows (just over 400 at this point) my personal time line is starting to look and feel more like the public time line as far as being difficult to keep up with and manage.

I asked my followers about this and everyone who responded thought it would be great. A couple of quotes:

"I think that would be essential. I want different groups separately accessible"

"Yes, it'd be nice to be able to tag people (and/or yourself) wud make 4 more relevant conversations"

Thanks! @soren

sorenj replied on May 07, 2008 22:29 to the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?" in Twitter:

The "a, b, c" list of options above (for why the system did not do this to start with) leaves out the obvious fourth choice, specifically:

The company actually did put thought into the design of their system, but they did not identify every single way that someone might try to manipulate the system outside of its intended usage.

This was, IMO, what happened in this case.

Kudos to Twitter for recognizing the situation and acting up on it.

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A comment on the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?" in Twitter:

Ack... I should have read this before I made my comment on the other thread... you are already addressing the issue I mentioned! Thanks! sbj – sorenj, on May 06, 2008 16:00

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A comment on the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

Thank you for this reply, I think it clearly states your position and clarifies the problem. On a slightly separate note I do think it might be worth revisiting your TOS. If you are going to go on record as not making a decision on harassment ("we do not think we will be good or effective at determining what is harassing or offensive") you might want to take that out of the TOE to not set "false" expectations. That, or define some guidelines. Just a thought. Thanks again! sbj – sorenj, on May 06, 2008 15:48

A comment on the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

<tangent>There are seriously times, when I put their writing side by side, I think that NDS and Prokofy are the same person.</tangent> – sorenj, on May 05, 2008 19:42

A comment on the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

If you want to read what I wrote and address the actual question, I'd love to hear it.

Beyond that, your assumption that the only reason to follow @ replies about yourself is vanity is something that seems, from what I have read of your writing, to be a bit beneath your intelligence. In other words I think (and hope) you know better. I don't do it, but there are certainly valid reasons for doing so.

Further, that is hardly the point of this thread at all. The point is that someone is harassing someone else, and finding innovative ways to do it in order to move around the solutions in place for preventing it. There are TOS in place to deal with this, Twitter is not doing anything to enforce them.

It is possible that I am wrong, but you have said nothing that makes me think that is the case, if anything you have underlined why I think I'm correct. – sorenj, on May 05, 2008 02:34

sorenj replied on May 05, 2008 01:07 to the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

I don't think that the willingness of a person to repeat his actions (i.e. re-register with a different name) should be a determining factor in enforcing the rules regarding those actions (suspending/canceling) an account for harassing)... Sounds like a pretty slippery slope to me...

I'm just say'n

sorenj replied on May 05, 2008 00:36 to the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

ProKofy, How can you say that he has a good point? I fail to see the logic in this. What right does he have to the Twitter "inboxes" of various users. The public timeline, sure (as long as he keeps it "clean" and honest... which he has also failed to to at times) but someone's personal timeline... no. There is no right, privilege, or precept anywhere in this country that gives you the right to enter someones personal space to protest, rant, or harass, in fact there are laws to the contrary.

In my book, finding ways to circumvent a block is tantamount to finding ways to circumvent email passwords, private property signs and locks on front doors.

How can you possibly justify defending this position?

sorenj replied on May 04, 2008 22:04 to the question "Is @panopticons abusing the Terms of Service" in Twitter:

Here is my take (and I only skimmed the comments so please forgive if it is a repeat).

The issue here is malicious intent. Malicious intent, to me, is anti-social behavior and anti-social behavior is not really appropriate on a social network (at least thats what logic tells me). I do not believe this particular practice is against the TOS (I do believe some of his other, harassing, activities are).

However, if I were Twitter, I would be more concerned about this than a TOE violation, to be honest. This is a deliberate effort to undermine the structure and function of their system. Standing by and allowing this is setting a very bad precedent.

Further, as a member of the Twitter community, it gives me great pause. If someone in my neighborhood was willingly and with malice of forethought trying to usurp the guidelines of the neighborhood association, I would expect them to do something about it. Should the fail, I would probably remove myself from that environment. Not necessarily because that activity would adversely efect me, but because the next one might, and I now know that the folks with the ability to do something about it... won't.

sorenj replied on March 05, 2008 21:46 to the question "How come the 1st Ammendment doesn't count on Twitter?" in Twitter:

The only legitimate reason I can think of for the ban would be if the rightful owner of one (or perhaps two) the breasts protested their cleavage being displayed without their prior permission. I'm quite sure that would create an insta-ban on any site.

Given the source of these images, I doubt it went down like that... but that is the only legitimate thing I can think of...