{"id":4349,"date":"2009-08-07T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2009-08-07T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:50:07","slug":"twittr-hax-rotf-lulz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Twittr Hax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has never been the most stable service.  You&#8217;d think a service dedicated to serving up 140 bytes of text data at a time would be more resilient than (say) your average video streaming YouTube wannabe.  The average 14 megabyte video will require <strong>one hundred thousand<\/strong> times the bandwidth as a tweet.  Add to this the fact that video share sites allow you to search, rate, and comment on videos, and it&#8217;s clear that you&#8217;re dealing with a lot more than five orders of magnitude in difference.  Yet the Twitter service winks out so much that it borders on narcoleptic. It&#8217;s just never made sense to me how Twitter has continued to be so shamefully wobbly over the past six months or so. <\/p>\n<p>But now I see this story: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/security\/?p=3953\">Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack<\/a>.  Amazing.  A hacker has control of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botnet\">botnet<\/a> and the most daring thing he can come up with is to sucker-punch the hilariously feeble micro-blogging service? The world&#8217;s least ambitious hacker versus the world&#8217;s least stable website.  Oh, which group of epic losers will prevail, and how will they make anyone care afterward?<\/p>\n<p>Dorks.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\">Follow me on twitter!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has never been the most stable service. You&#8217;d think a service dedicated to serving up 140 bytes of text data at a time would be more resilient than (say) your average video streaming YouTube wannabe. The average 14 megabyte video will require one hundred thousand times the bandwidth as a tweet. Add to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}