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$50,000 Twitter Username Stolen With Help From PayPal and GoDaddy

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    Alexander DiMauro
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    Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

    I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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      Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

      I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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      JMK89
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      I read this earlier, I think all staff interacting with customers at these companies should have to read Mitnick as a basic requirement![^]

      Well fads they come and fads they go. And God I love that rock and roll! Well the point was fast but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!"

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        I read this earlier, I think all staff interacting with customers at these companies should have to read Mitnick as a basic requirement![^]

        Well fads they come and fads they go. And God I love that rock and roll! Well the point was fast but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!"

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        Alexander DiMauro
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        Yes, I agree. But, unless issues like this receive more publicity, nothing will probably ever change.

        I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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        • A Alexander DiMauro

          Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

          I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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          JoeSox
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          The SMS for two-way for Paypal stinks (I guess I am used to Google's; Paypal makes you press a button to send the SMS as I didn't know this at first.), they offer two other methods though.

          Later, JoeSox CPMCv1.0 - Last.fm - MyFriendfeed - CPForAndroid++

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          • A Alexander DiMauro

            Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

            I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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            snorkie
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            Nothing on or about Twitter is worth $50,000 let alone $1. That is one thing I refuse to use. I'm no Ent[^], but Twitter is just too short for me. Hogan

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            • A Alexander DiMauro

              Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

              I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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              R Giskard Reventlov
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              Why would anyone trust PayPal or GoDaddy or any faceless organization to look after anything? And why would you think that anyone would pay $50000 for a stupid handle for stupid Twitter. To sort of misquote: He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

              "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures

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                Why would anyone trust PayPal or GoDaddy or any faceless organization to look after anything? And why would you think that anyone would pay $50000 for a stupid handle for stupid Twitter. To sort of misquote: He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

                "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures

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                Alexander DiMauro
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                mark merrens wrote:

                And why would you think that anyone would pay $50000 for a stupid handle for stupid Twitter.

                In the article the author states that someone once offered him $50000 for his twitter username. That is where that price comes from. In hindsight, the author should have taken the offer. I sure would have! I agree with you, no handle is worth that much money (unless you are Google or Microsoft, etc.). If somebody offered it to me, it would be a done deal without a second thought!

                I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                • A Alexander DiMauro

                  Kind of scary how easily PayPal and GoDaddy give out your personal information: https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd[^] Isn't this aiding and abetting a crime on the part of PayPal and GoDaddy?

                  I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                  Ashley van Gerven
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                  Paypal has denied giving out card details: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/29/paypal-denies-providing-payment-information-hacker-hijacked-50000-twitter-username/#!t1v2b[^] Hopefully the hacker has a recording of the call he's willing to share to disprove this.. ;P

                  "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                  CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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