Twitter safety flaw might depart movies despatched in direct messages uncovered

Movies despatched in Twitter direct messages can theoretically be seen by anybody, a weak point that could possibly be leveraged by hackers, however the firm is not planning on fixing this flaw

By Matthew Sparkes

Twitter has a vulnerability that leaves any video despatched in a direct message viewable to anybody on the web – if they’ll someway guess the right distinctive internet tackle. The flaw may depart delicate, private movies open to theft and will doubtlessly put political activists in some international locations in danger. The corporate has been knowledgeable, however claims the problem isn’t an issue.

Whenever you ship a video in a Twitter direct message, the corporate hosts the file on a …