Thursday, June 2, 2011

Video: Ending the Weinergate Controversy

Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-NY) pun-laden media blitz may have convinced the public he didn't send the lewd photo from his Twitter account, but his uncertainty over whether the picture was of him only served to keep the scandal alive.

Of course, the controversy would go away if Rep. Weiner would stop stonewalling and answer reporters directly.

3 comments:

Jonah said...

WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING
The Daily learns tweet originated from app that pol used the night pic was posted

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/05/060511-news-weiner-1-4/

Jonah said...

WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING

The Daily learns tweet originated from app that pol used the night pic was posted

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/05/060511-news-weiner-1-4/

dsm said...

@Jonah,

I saw that a little while ago and I have to agree with you.

You'll note that I did try to steer clear of the politics of this because it wasn't clear that his YFrog email address had been compromised. In fact, he may not have even had one given the way that he used YFrog. That said, I stand by my criticism.

The fact that YFrog disabled email submission this week implies that they thought something needed to be fixed. Perhaps, that's a completely unrelated bug, but I still believe that the inability to reset your YFrog email address is a significant design flaw.

Twitter's design flaw is even more significant in my opinion. If they're going to assert that certain users are "verified" then they have to have mechanisms in place to ensure that those users remain verified. If a verified users twitter account will tweet whatever is sent to some email address, well then that's a security hole that undermines their claim that a user is "verified."