Jon O.: > Uh, so I'm not so worried about conficker -- I'm a bit more worried > about the security experts (yes, you on this list) looking at twitter > to find out the latest info ;). Do you really think that's a useful > source?
Twitter isn't a place to get technical info, or data on what's happening on the transport layers of the 'net, but it's a good (and very low-cost) place to find out what a pretty big and miscellaneous (if not randomly-selected) bunch of users are thinking and saying. And that can be valuable. For instance if there was a sudden rush of mentions of a free anti-conficker tool that turned out to actually be the conficker.D installer... :) DC
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