Update: The screen capture of Jack Layton’s Twitter page shown below is a Photoshop edit — all the entries save the second, third and fourth are real, and the “hack” never happened. The graphic passed to me was a joke, and I fell for it. It happens sometimes.
(But the security tip still applies!)
Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party here in Canada, has a Twitter account. He — or his personal assistant — has been posting in a style that sounds more like a real human being than a press release.
What he (or his personal assistant) has to remember is to make sure you’ve logged out of services like Twitter, GMail and so on after using a public computer. Otherwise, someone can hop on his account and post entries under his name…
Screen capture courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Update: Remember this about Layton’s Twitter account being used by unauthorized people:
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I would assume as an Internet man you'd know this, but you're not really a gamer so perhaps you won't: those particularly bad Twitters are from Penny Arcade. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre/ (NparticularlySFW, but not really worse than the post)
@Mobius Soul: I'm not the most hardcore gamer out there, but I am a gamer! I was in line for the midnight release of GTA IV! I just blogged about how I didn't really like Too Human on Global Nerdy!
I'm also a Penny Arcade reader and recognized the reference, but was too lazy to do the linking.
Clearly the person who got ahold of Jack's Twitter account is a reader of penny-arcade:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
Apparently I'm just too slow with my Googling...
Nice: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/