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Effective spamming all too easy...
By pipes
August 17, 2010 --
Last Tuesday was an unremarkable day. I awoke to the usual E-Mails IRC chatter and RSS reading, the most noteworthy of which was a small cluster of ZDI advisories addressing issues in WebKit.
Then I spotted the following, unremarkable tweet from @davidfarrier:
"some chap in china just hacked my gmail. and just to tell people about iphone 4s. as if people didn't know already. silly bugger."
Quickly followed by this:
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