Friday, September 4, 2009

Hacked!

I woke up this morning to the following email:
From: Barry 7:37 AM

(no subject)

Were you up all night tweeting?
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Sent from my iPhone

No, of course I wasn't.  Any good entrepreneur knows that you needs at least 9 hours of beauty sleep, so I most certainly was not interfering with that by tweeting at all hours of the night.  However, I was curious as to what he was referring to, so I fired up the old iPhone, loaded up TwitterFon, and sure enough, there were a few tweets from @bgreenstore throughout the night.  Hmmm, that's odd.

Yeah, so that's a bit strange.  A couple of those tweets could be confused for ours, but quoting people?  That's not really our thing.  They funny thing is that one of those quotes got re-tweeted a couple times.  Thanks, I guess?

So by my estimation, there are four possible scenarios that could have led to those tweets:

  1. Some people sleep walk, maybe one of us sleep tweets.  Not likely.

  2. Maybe those crazy lawyers duped us, and we really have a third business partner that we didn't know about.  And he/she decided now would be a good time to reveal him/herself.  Possible, but not likely.

  3. The ghost of Po Po Potanipo suddenly took up tweeting instead of haunting camper's bunks.  Maybe, but we're not sure he has thumbs.

  4. Someone hacked our account.  Most likely scenario.


Wow, someone actually took the time to hack our account!  How Cool!  Yes, I know this should piss us off, but it really is pretty cool.  I picture a dude in a Angelina Jolie Hackersroom with 20 computers, wires running everywhere, odd lighting, and fingers moving furiously over the keyboards.  Maybe there's even an Angelia Jolie type character right over his shoulder.  Something right out of the movie "Hackers." Sadly, this probably isn't the case, and it's probably some old gross dude living in his mom's basement with nothing better to do that try and hack a budding entrepreneur's twitter feed.  Needless to say, we've changed our password, and made it ultra cryptic this time.  Got to protect what's ours.  Lesson learned.


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