Twitterank and Password Sharing
ZDNet is running a story about how "promiscuous" (excellent adjective!) Twitter users can be; original story here, and Twitterank creator Ryo Chijiiwa's followup here.
This would have been a slightly better story if Ryo was a security researcher who was trying to make a point about password sharing, but no, that was just a side effect of his viral web service (according to him, over two thousand opt-ins in under five hours).
The fact is, Ryo is not the first to ask for your password. Facebook and LinkedIn have been doing it for a while, mainly to rifle through your webmail contacts list, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.
I've never really understood why anyone would say yes to this, or even why it's acceptable to ask. Kids these days with their loose passwords and their Internet promiscuity.
This would have been a slightly better story if Ryo was a security researcher who was trying to make a point about password sharing, but no, that was just a side effect of his viral web service (according to him, over two thousand opt-ins in under five hours).
The fact is, Ryo is not the first to ask for your password. Facebook and LinkedIn have been doing it for a while, mainly to rifle through your webmail contacts list, and I'm sure they're not the only ones.
I've never really understood why anyone would say yes to this, or even why it's acceptable to ask. Kids these days with their loose passwords and their Internet promiscuity.
posted by todb at 7:52 AM
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I said yes and gave up credentials, but I also changed my credentials to a temporary password first, let Twitterrank do it's thing, then changed my password back. Even though the site says it doesn't store the password, I'm not that trusting. I figured that was a decent compromise... besides, it's only Twitter (:
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