After Buying Followers Menshn Buys Some Tweets

Following reports by Political Scrapbook that the Conservative MP and founder of social networking website Menshn, Louise Mensch, had suddenly been followed by thousands of fake accounts it now appears Menshn has been purchasing Tweets from dozens, if not hundreds, of Twitter bots to promote Menshn.  For example, here's a small list of mentions of Menshn from a small time frame

Now if you have a quick look at what these accounts and others have been Tweeting you'll see the same articles have recently been Tweeted, with result like this

And so on through dozens of accounts, the same articles Tweeted by all of them, clearly indicating that Menshn has purchased Tweets to promote the site.  Between this and Louise Mensch's recent addition of thousands of followers it does seem that she's getting a little desperate in her attempts to promote her latest project, not surprising after all the teething problems its had.

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Following on from my previous post on Menshn Syn0nymph has yet again uncovered another security flaw in the website

Worryingly you can still use someone else's email address to get into Menshn. How? Register with a valid email/and receive a confirmation email which validates you own account. Open mail and click the link and you can then log in and use Menshn to your hearts content.

You can then, if you were of a mind to, edit your profile and change your email login and user name to anything you like. Logout and then login again and instead of being prompted to click on an email confirmation confirming your email change etc you will find you can continue to use Menshn as usual unprompted and without any validation. I just did this and I now have an account called //BobDiamond, using his email address to access Menshn!

So yet another reason to wait a while before you open your Menshn account.

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More Teething Problems For Menshn

By now I'm sure you've all heard of new social network Menshn, founded by Conservative MP Louise Mensch, as a sort of alternative to Twitter, except with many more security flaws.  Twitter user Syn0nymph has been uncovering a number of issues with the site, and has just uncovered a fresh set of issues:

Last night I flagged issues with Menshn not having email validation as I was able to register for an account using someone else's email address and by just making up a dummy email address. I am pleased to see that this issue has now been fixed.

However, I felt the process had to be tested and so I again set up an account using a dummy, non-existent email address and as expected got a screen up on Menshn telling me that I needed to validate my email address by clicking on the link which had been sent to me before I could use the site and it's features etc.

Now, as I had made the email address up, I was never going to get a link to click was I? So I assumed that I would not be able to use any Menshn features at all until I had validated the email address. I was wrong and I could. I could not get into any of the topic rooms to post anything which is good but I was able to do all of the following:

1.Use the User Search facility
2.Subscribe to other Menshners
3.Send a Menshner a DM
4.Mute a Menshner
5.See who another Menshner's subscribers were
6.Invite my friends to join via entering their email addresses

Guess Mr Bozier still has some work to do...

So it seems that Menshn still has quite a while to go before it's a fully functioning site, something that should have really been resolved before the site was released in the UK, especially as the past security issues may have left it's users vulnerable to malicious attacks.

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