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   More bad news for Twitter as two more ex   
   29 Dec 16 10:55:24   
   
   XPost: alt.california, ba.politics, talk.politics.misc   
   XPost: alt.culture.alaska   
   From: truth@mcnbc.com   
      
   Online hacking concern OurMine has scored another coup by   
   hacking the Twitter account run by Netflix. Fortunately for   
   Netflix, OurMine is a “white hat” hacker group and they take   
   pride in penetrating online defenses – it was a password this   
   time around – and then gently needling their victims rather than   
   using the hacked accounts for evil. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg   
   and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are among its victims.   
      
   OurMine tweeted out their logo and a contact email address along   
   with a short message about “testing your security” on the   
   Netflix account before Netflix likely stepped in and changed up   
   the password. OurMine added that “no one is safe from hackers”   
   before all their tweets were deleted, and sadly, it seems like   
   they’re pretty much right about that.   
      
   The exodus continues at Twitter with the impending departure of   
   two more upper-level execs, Chief Technology Officer Adam   
   Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland. Messinger has been   
   in the Twitter nest for four years and said he’s going to take   
   some time off, while MacFarland is leaving to join venture   
   capital outfit Greylock Partners as an investor, according to   
   Forbes.   
      
   Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced that   
   Keith Coleman, formerly of Yes Inc. and Google, is going to head   
   up the products division. However, Twitter has seen two rounds   
   of layoffs in two years and a steadily sliding stock price,   
   despite it being an icon of social media. Can somebody please   
   turn this company onto a path for growth? Apple? Microsoft?   
   Facebook? Google? Bueller? Anyone?   
      
   http://www.digitaltrends.com/dt-daily/more-bad-news-for-twitter-   
   as-two-more-executives-exit/   
       
      
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