In an amazing coincidence, we were just talking about why Twitter would matter 
in a different context.

You may have seen the WSJ origin of this -

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/06/traders-sneaking-peeks-at-government-economic-reports/

There was a mention of Sandia's work for Bureau of Labor a while back in the 
press - we reluctantly red-teamed their pressroom security.  We told them that 
this was possible and even likely.

So the last couple of days, we've been passing this article around in email and 
making cracks about it.  One of our original recommendations was to move from 
the 1960 pressroom model to a 21st Century Internet model.  In the email chain, 
one of us joked that they'd be better off just using Twitter - to which I 
replied that their adversary model would then be Guccifer and Syrian Electronic 
Army.

Just imagine if the Friday morning government economic news came out via 
Twitter - authentication on Twitter really would matter.

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On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

OK, Twitter now has 2-factor auth.  But does it matter?  I use 2-factor with 
Google 'cause I store data on their system, make docs, have my email, and so 
on.  But Twitter, really?  Do I care?

https://blog.twitter.com/2013/getting-started-login
-verification

Anyone on top of this, especially for motivation?

   -- Owen

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