WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING Excerpt: As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiners claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online.
But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congresss Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiners Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck one of many ways to post messages to Twitter that entire night. Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp does make it more plausible that it did come from him. Excerpt: However, this information doesnt rule out the possibility that the congressmans Twitter account was infiltrated as Weiner has publicly suggested. But experts say it adds another hurdle for an alibi that has come under increasing fire. The complexity goes up, said Chris McCroskey, the Texas software developer who founded TweetCongress.org. The site, which has advocated the increased participation from congressmen on Twitter, aggregates and archives all the feeds of the 112th Congress from Twitters application programming interface. It is the only known database to do this other than the Library of Congress, which does not publicly share its data. Excerpt: As for Weiner, the TweetDeck stamp wont solve the case itself. But McCroskey knows what can. Heres the thing that solves it all, said McCroskey, for him to call for a criminal investigation. All they have to do is look at his TweetDeck and see if it came from there, see what IP address [it had]. The local police department or Capitol Police could probably figure this out in 15 minutes. Read more here: http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/05/060511-news-weiner-1-4/ J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338635 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
