Don't bother with the Twitter key giveaways

Stew · 2012-06-07, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by RadarX

Unfortunately this is a bit of an edge case so I can't say definitively you would be included.

Hackers with bots claim all your keys sadly ... it seams all the beta keys are gone whithin 3 seconde or less !

I think you guys should post all the beta keys in a ((Picture format ))

Jacius Ceed · 2012-06-07, 07:27 AM

It is quite hard to get noticed by the twitter team.
They have a lot of tweets hitting their feed.

Took me several hours to get mine.

psychobilly · 2012-06-07, 08:06 AM

Pretty disappointed in the twitter/facebook giveaways.

I wish they would go through planetside universe and give keys to people who have actually contributed ideas in the idea vault, and also give large blocks of keys to outfit leaders. Much better approach than handing out keys to random social network dweebs.

Irondove · 2012-06-07, 10:41 AM

So after learning how to use twitter and asking for a beta key, gmail informs me that a hacker tried to access my gmail from vietnam. Thank goodness he didnt get through; and ive amped up my security to "very strong". goodluck to the next hacker who tries, and if hes successful, ill look into 128bit random encryption keys.

but honestly i really dont want to have to go learn that road just yet.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:32:51 AM GMT
IP Address: 125.234.4.10
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

so one more thing to worry about i guess.

**RadarX** · 2012-06-07, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Irondove

So after learning how to use twitter and asking for a beta key, gmail informs me that a hacker tried to access my gmail from vietnam. Thank goodness he didnt get through; and ive amped up my security to "very strong". goodluck to the next hacker who tries, and if hes successful, ill look into 128bit random encryption keys.

but honestly i really dont want to have to go learn that road just yet.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:32:51 AM GMT
IP Address: 125.234.4.10
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

so one more thing to worry about i guess.

Have you ever used Linkedin or eHarmony? They were recently compromised. I've had this happen before using dirty public WiFi in Las Vegas.

Don't give up!

Markn · 2012-06-07, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by RadarX

Have you ever used Linkedin or eHarmony? They were recently compromised. I've had this happen before using dirty public WiFi in Las Vegas.

Don't give up!

Never use public WiFi.

metziih · 2012-06-07, 01:53 PM

Yeah it's pretty pointless try to get a beta-key through twitter. With 15 second lag between sending and receiving tweet, there's no bloody way you're going to get a beta-key that's not already in use.

**RadarX** · 2012-06-07, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Stew

Hackers with bots claim all your keys sadly ... it seams all the beta keys are gone whithin 3 seconde or less !

I think you guys should post all the beta keys in a ((Picture format ))

The bots claim is possible but still probably very unlikely. Especially from Twitter. This also doesn't account for the fact we are maxing out our Twitter Direct Messages every day.