Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos

Re:Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos by wheels on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:37AM (#2704449)

It's not like compiling it in would have helped:

  satie: /usr/lib/kde4> strings kipiplugin_facebook.so | grep -P "[0-9a-f]{32}"
  bf430ad869b88aba5c0c17ea6707022b
  0434307e70dd12c414cc6d0928f132d8

I just picked the plugin in question since its keys are already pasted all over the interwebs, but I presume it would be similarly trivial to pull the keys out of most desktop apps.

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Re:Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos by saurik on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:38AM (#2704455)

Hence why I said: "open source or not: doesn't matter". The insecurity here is including your application's authentication credentials in any format that is ending up on an unsecured system.

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