Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)

by getp • 18 years ago

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pius2• 18 years ago

That's pretty rough. Maybe someday people will just stop using services that ask you for your passwords to other services. It's ridiculous.

axod2• 18 years ago

Why would you use twitter for personal messages? It just doesn't make any sense :/

getp• 18 years ago

If it's a personal message, it's the equivalent of an sms on the web.

axod2• 18 years ago

Sure. It just seems an odd choice. It's like using a blog to do revision control, by posting your source code as a new blog post each revision.

Each to their own though...

tptacek• 18 years ago

Because you don't always know the IM name of the person you want to message.

danw3• 18 years ago

Twitter should implement OAuth or equiv for it's api. I'm fed up of handing out my password to third party twitter applications.

pius2• 18 years ago

The irony of this is that Blaine Cook is one of the leads on OAuth, IIRC.

danw3• 18 years ago

"OAuth began in November 2006, during which Blaine Cook was developing the Twitter OpenID implementation" [0]

Now that is most strange. Perhaps it's still in development?

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