Description: We've all heard of phishing and spear-phishing. We've even heard of twishing and spear-twishing to a limited extent. After all, Twitter is an excellent target for social engineering due to conditioned users, anonymous connections via pseudonyms, and a lack of content filtering. For example, shortened URLs are typically flagged by detection software in e-mail, but it's almost a necessity in Twitter with the 140 character length restriction. So we have a ripe target base of users clicking on shortened URLs, but let's be honest: developing targeted tweets can be annoying. Plus, to really target users and take advantage of trust relationships, you need to map out who's following who, and that is pretty arduous given existing tools. So, we built Hypertwish, a Twitter visualization and spear-twishing framework that uses small generative grammars and a hyberbolic tree. Yaay math! This tool is also a trial of some of our existing research into computer linguistics and automated content generation, so that when Doomsday arrives, at least Skynet will be able to use social media. You'll never trust people on Twitter again.
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