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He also realized he hadn't used a proxy to hide his IP address, potentially making him traceable. He didn't think the intrusion was important draw for law-enforcement attention, and "didn't think it would make headlines.

I don't understand how he thought hi-jacking Obama, Britney and Fox News twitter accounts wouldn't make headlines.

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This was when he was just running a dictionary attack on a random Twitter account, before he even had any idea he was hitting a privileged login.

He didn't hijack those accounts; he gave out the credentials in a forum thread and others jumped on it.

Technically you're correct, but by giving out the credentials in a public forum he should have known better.

DG is an unique place.

I don't understand how he thought hi-jacking Obama, Britney and Fox News twitter accounts wouldn't make headlines.

He was hijacking a random account on some totally unknown site called twitter.

I know this is hard to grasp outside the valley, but most people have not ever heard about twitter and will probably assume it's about as important to the internet as zombo.com.

Actually CNN mentions Twitter quite often and especially during the elections a lot of people started hearing of Twitter way outside of the valley. If my parents learned about Twitter from watching TV I assume it's a safe bet that many other people have as well.

The last sentence of the article:

   "He said he'd never even heard of Twitter until he saw someone mention it on YouTube. "

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