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Hackers seize Church News Twitter account

Are the lawyers Tweeting Twitter or talking to them on the phone?

They got password? Twitter insider?

Some people are such sad human beings. Nothing better to do then hack a Twitter acct? Sounds like they need to move out of mommy and daddy's basement and get a life.

Whoever did it doesn't really know the church. I'd be interested to know if OTHER churches accounts have been hatched into.

"Unlike many online accounts, like those for Facebook, Twitter does not send a confirmation e-mail when a user changes a password, Craine said."

Maybe Twitter should implement confirmation emails and require that a person log into their email to change their password through a link. So even if a person guessed or knew the password they would not be able to change that password unless they have access to the email account on file for that Twitter account.

The truth does NOT equal anti-mormon.

The vast majority of the time, what is anti-mormon does NOT equal The Truth.

I had one of the first connection to the World Wide Web. This was those days when Mosaic ruled the Web. Back then it was government, universities and some organizations. There was no spam, Phishing, virus, identity thief or hanking.

After millions of taxpayer dollars, in one of the largest acts of corporate welfare, the government just gave away the Web. You wonder why we are in debt. Would paying back be too much to ask businesses that never give a darn thing back?

Today, the web is full of porn, scams, liars and all that capitalism attacks. I hear how the free market only improves things. What a lie!

Is there a book of Mormon mantras? "The dogs bark and the caravan moves on was taken from an Arab saying. Today, I can't read where anyone questions Mormonism that I don't read this same saying.

Just because a caravan moves on doesn't mean the cargo isn't hashish. I know no LDS caravan would be hulling kilos Red Lebanese. The profound imaginary of this statement escapes me.

One thing's for sure. Waiting five days to take it down is WAY too long in the cyberworld. Then again, the church just gave up DOS five years ago.

Perhaps they should use a password that is 32 characters long. Can't crack that unless the site is implemented by monkies

@Truth Police 1:27pm | 2:05 p.m. June 11, 2009

Anything that doesn't present the church in the best possible light is considered 'anti'. I've even heard it argued that the Journal of Discourses is anti-mormon literature.

BrotherJoseph But you're special for having such a close guess.

... Twitter's useless. It's popular, yes. All the rage these days, sure. But the platform's ultimately garbage.

The only thing Twitter does well is help people spread a brief message quickly to other people--whoever they are. But you never know exactly who else is following you, it's darn hard to find anyone you actually know who you really want to follow, you never really learn anything substantive from anyone else, and you sort throught and get a lot of garbage along the way. OK, fine, you can criticize Facebook for all the same reasons--but Facebook's problems in each of those areas are a lot smaller than Twitter's.

I hate to predict that Twitter will die out--it'll probably be around a while, regardless of what I think about it--but I won't mourn it for very long when it does.

Critical of Twitter? Maybe you should be concerned with who has access to the password and the security of such password.

The hacker actually caused interest in the program. He made the hits come fast and furious now.

Sk8boy

I had a Twitter account for a short time and found "Accessible Twitter" to be anything but accessible most of the time. I agree, finding someone to follow or accept as a follower can be tricky.

Deseret News allows anti-Mormon comments to be posted all the time. They are an instrument in presenting anti-Mormon literature. They never remove evil and hateful comments made by gay extremists and by other hate groups. This comment is sure to be removed. That is why I despise the DN and their typical media extremism. It is time the Church and the DN part ways or that the DN receives disciplinary action.

The Church's IT is almost a joke. It is somewhat surprising how weak and slow they are....

or comments that sting you because of your beliefs? if you were buddhist, and this site allow "anti-buddhist" comments, would you say the same? or anti-catholic, anti-vegan, anti-semetic, anti-wiccan? anti-gay? anti-abortion? anti-gun. (did i leave any out?)

from my observations, this site allows a pretty wide range of dialouge and commentary. sounds like freedom of speech.

too bad someone had to hack the twitter account. sounds like opportunism or vendetta. hope it gets resolved.

Look everyone. I am the "anti-mormon" "gay extremest" that thee crazy person above was warning y'all about.
I agree. Unless "DN" removes my comment, they deserve to be "Disciplined".
(I wish this site had an emoticon for an eye roll.)