Delphin Pearce, the Australian guy a naive experiment caused a revolt that sent shivers Twitter describes itself as "a quasi-legal teen (17 years), 'whore' of social networks and lover of politics. " Also said to be good at "taking vodka and look hot."
Delphin, who lives with his parents in Melbourne and is calling on the network @ Zzap microblogging tested a JavaScript code for your tweets to open in popup windows when you hover the mouse over them. He said he took the idea of \u200b\u200ba Japanese user also used Java to their tweets were colored like a rainbow. But his experiment was used by hackers who changed the code and began to direct users to porn sites and caused a chaos that affected thousands of twitter.
As one of the first users of Twitter in Australia, with a profile that has since 2006, Delphin Twitter was afraid to close your account, but that has not happened so far. "When I posted the tweet, I had no idea it was to end as it did. Had not even considered, "he told AFP.
But the consequences of their actions go far beyond what one might think, and Twitter know. The weakness may have been used to direct users to other sites with malicious code and steal your private data. Microblogging network has not admitted this to happen, but apologized to their users.
Among those affected were the press secretary for the White House, Robert Gibbs, and Sarah Brown, wife of former Prime Minister of Great Britain. Despite what happened, Delphin says it only expects to graduate high school early and start studying law. "I found a vulnerability, did not create a self-replicated worm. To my knowledge, this is not technically illegal, "he said. "Hopefully I will not get in trouble!". For now, enjoy their 15 minutes of fame and media coverage that have made their finding.
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