News on Twitter Verified Accounts from Mashable.
Twitter Launches Verified Accounts.
This is great news, many people are trying hard to block identity theft on the net so it’s important that new mediums take this seriously as soon as possible, preferably at the design stage!
Look at the difference between XMPP and SMTP(lack of) anti-spoofing features, the ease with which SMTP senders (email) can be spoofed has caused many problems.
On the other hand it’s also spawned a huge IT security industry… hmm.