Comments on: How To Screw Up Your Internet Business

By: Home_Security_Systems

Home_Security_Systems — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:46:35 +0000

Hi! Its one of the best blog and this is very useful for the readers like me,it helps me a lot which I can't describe,bcoz I'm speechless anyway great job and one of the superb,Thanks for the job,keep up post cont………Thanks a lot.

By: Adwido

Adwido — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:40:45 +0000

Thanks Andy – I like this post.
You are trying to create the awareness on not to let access them out inbox.

By: Adwido

Adwido — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Thanks Andy – I like this post.
You are trying to create the awareness on not to let access them out inbox.

By: Twitter & Tell-A-Friend Viral Hell

Twitter & Tell-A-Friend Viral Hell — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:15:18 +0000

[...] 11 months ago after a number of prior warning posts I made the following statement. Over the last few months I have already taken the decision not to promote a number of sites and services launched by Internet Marketers using these dangerous scripts. [...]

By: Want people to Tweet for you virally? Don’t ask for their password.

Want people to Tweet for you virally? Don’t ask for their password. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:45:42 +0000

[...] Fine enough, but I don’t want to be handing over my Twitter password to all and sundry. Sorry, but I just don’t, regardless of any privacy guarantees that might be given. Asking for Twitter passwords is pretty much as bad as asking for email passwords.Â [...]

By: Suz

Suz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:56:22 +0000

Andy-
THanks for the great article on this, I hadn’t been aware of the issues with the email access on many of these systems. THansk again.
-Suz

By: Guru Crusher

Guru Crusher — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:21:10 +0000

I had wondered about these “optin accelerators.” I didn’t promote them either for the simple fact that I hate getting emails for things I didn’t sign up for in the first place.

But I would think that maybe the worst part would be that the creators might be able to spy on every email you add.

Maybe not, but then again, maybe so….

I guess it was just an attempt to make money…

By: Kristel - Call Center Philippines

Kristel - Call Center Philippines — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:57:51 +0000

I’ve been brought up in a kind of internet environment that has the number one rule of “never give out your password” for anything or for anyone. I haven’t encountered a website asking for my email credentials yet but I think that even if it is a social networking website, I wouldn’t dare give away my password.

This is post is very helpful. Thank you for sharing this. I wasn’t aware that certain websites practice this so I’ll keep an eye out now.

By: Tired of these marketing emails

Tired of these marketing emails — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:20:58 +0000

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By: John W. Furst

John W. Furst — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the “Security Alert!”, Andy.

I’m not a fan of any sort of “Tell-A-Friend” promotion, but asking for account credentials to import contacts is even somewhat more intrusive, isn’t it. A while ago I added a line to my personal email’s signature “This is an unlisted, private email address. You must not share it with anybody!” Well, my friends are ‘smart’ and I never had problems,… but just in case.

My advice to programmers, marketers, and service providers:

* Give the user a choice of creating a login ID, which does not show up anywhere (different from screen name, different from email address). I say “choice” in reference to Guy Kawasaki who said on his Blog, “I don’t use services that don’t allow me to use my email address as login.” Okay, if you want to (dear user, you can). I guess you could be proud, if someone like Guy uses your service … no need to lock him out.

* Don’t store passwords in plain text. Therefore you cannot send them via email as well! But don’t forget to implement a password recovery procedure.

* Continuing with what you wrote, Andy. Don’t ask for too much information anyway. At first earn the users trust and respect, then an kind of ‘tell-a-friend’ will work much better for you.

Yours John

P.S. I hope that was not too long Andy, but I think security (technical) and ethics (marketing,promotion) is very important for the Internet marketplace. As you do.