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Robot tweets I seriously want to kill people, prompts police response

Twitter user @jeffrybooks tweeted I seriously want to kill people at an upcoming event in Amsterdam. Police visited the account owner Jeffry van der Goot to explain the message to police. The 28-year-old software developer had been using a bot developed by technology student ‘Wxcafe’ The bot had been engaging in a conversation with one of Twitters 23 million other bots. At the request of the Dutch authorities, it has now been terminated.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/13/robot-tweets-i-seriously-want-to-kill-people-prompts-police-response/

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