Uncarved » malware http://uncarved.prometheas.com An ongoing tension of potential, or how i learned to stop worrying and embrace the iterations. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:14:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 TwitDoc — Further Extending Twitter’s Publishing Capabilities http://uncarved.prometheas.com/2009/05/twitdoc-%e2%80%94-further-extending-twitters-publishing-capabilities.html http://uncarved.prometheas.com/2009/05/twitdoc-%e2%80%94-further-extending-twitters-publishing-capabilities.html#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 07:19:54 +0000 John http://uncarved.prometheas.com/?p=298 One of the amazing things about Twitter’s simplicity is how well it lends itself to utilization in a variety of ways that weren’t explicitly intended when it was initially designed.

Today TwitDoc is launching what appears to be the first service for sharing documents over Twitter, bringing support for PDFs, Microsoft Office Documents, and a bunch of other file formats.

via TwitDoc: Proving That Every File Format Will Eventually Be Shareable Over Twitter.

My only concern is that the widespread practice of people posting Microsoft Office Documents via TwitDoc can quickly turn Twitter into a new vector for malware in the form of naughty Excel macros and such. Hopefully the folks behind TwitDoc will be actively scanning the files uploaded and shared through their service.

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