Twitter microblog service operators blocked the account of one of the members, who had about two months ago he had to publish a link to a known phishing page on MySpace. The owner of the account was Mikko Hypponen, head of research at the producer, F-Secure anti-virus, which regularly includes in its tweets suspected links - but for the warning. The expert said the incident on the pages of the blog F-Secure.

Generated automatically when the justification for the imposition of the lock (because of suspicious activity ") initially caused in Hypponena and his supporters (followers) helplessness, giving them grounds for all kinds of conjecture. Only two days after the account has been restored, but temporarily without access to subscribers. In explaining Twitter said: "Please be careful! Scan for all malware." It turns out that also in case of accidental self-imposed blockade, users must request it through the abolition of the special technical assistance.

Account suspension due Hypponen Tweet stated a few months ago indicates an automated process to block decisions without prior verification by man. This can be explained in such a way that the database is regularly checked Twitter using the blacklist, after the upgrade which are trapped at the older tweets. The excessive use of blockades by Twitter we have seen in July, when the account numbers of service users TweetLater (now SocialOomph) has been blocked due to suspected spamer activity.

Therefore, those who, like many security experts occasionally contain a link to tweets problematic sites, they should proceed with caution. Hypponen used by camouflage in the form of blanks (www. rnyspece. Com), probably not enough to fool the security Twitter. To have a guarantee of efficiency, you probably turn to drastic obfuscation techniques, such as letters or even a switch to use special characters. However, if you ever new patterns of alignment to be applied to all tweets placed on the little that passes after the imposition of the blockade is left us nothing else but that the use of technical assistance.