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You Can’t Patch a Social Network

What makes social networks successful is precisely the thing that makes them vulnerable to hackers: Trusting and sharing with others, sometimes even strangers. Now that theyre under attack from worms and malware, operators are trying to patch security loopholes. But its hard to fix the DNA without altering the nature of the organism. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have all come under attack in recent days. In Twitter’s case, hackers whose pages contained malware started following people; by chec....

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on Aug 08, 08

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