Re:Is It Stupid to Trust Twitter Apps With Your Password?
by wmf on Friday January 02, 2009 @03:02PM
(#417619)
The only alternative is to not use Twitter apps. Until there's a real alternative (OAuth), people will be giving away their passwords.
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Re:Is It Stupid to Trust Twitter Apps With Your Password?
by tptacek on Friday January 02, 2009 @03:09PM
(#417629)
The better alternative is to use random passwords (from a bookmarklet, for instance) so that you'll have no psychological resistance to changing it to ditch a crappy service.
Re:Is It Stupid to Trust Twitter Apps With Your Password?
by spoondan on Friday January 02, 2009 @06:01PM
(#417877)
The only problem with this approach is that you cannot de-provision individual bad actors. It's an all or nothing approach. There's a lot of work involved in re-provisioning the good guys, and where there's work, there's psychological resistance.