If Twitter were really serious about the dangers of sharing access to Gmail accounts, and thus their personal documents on Google Apps, they wouldn’t continue to encourage people to hand over their email passwords just to tell their friends about Twitter or find existing friends on the service.
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I have written extensively about the problems associated with Viral Tell-A-Friend systems. People are becoming careless with personal and business security, and soon adding an email and password to a box will be as common as handing over an email address… but with dire consequences.
My opinion, Techcrunch shouldn’t publish what they found in Twitter’s undie drawer… but only with the provision that they remove the hypocritical viral tell-a-friend, and encourage other startups to do the same… until they learn to use APIs correctly.
Dopplr manage to use APIs for TAF without the massive funding, and Gigya seem to have some API support.
Let something good come of this, and get all major social sites to stop scraping 3rd party accounts as well.
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Now Twitter's own internal systems have been hacked, along with the accounts of Twitter users including celebrities:
http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/jul/twitter...
The initial point of entry wasn't a gap in Twitter's security. The hacker(s) gained access through a Google Apps account. The worry with a Google account is, it's web-based and therefore only as secure as the rest of the Internet. If yuor Google account is compromised and you use Google Docs in a serious commercial setting, your Twitter account will be the least of your worries.
I think you have your facts wrong on what data was actually seen
They didn't get access to celebrity accounts on this, but personal details such as direct email addresses possibly to agents etc.
I doubt that very much – Twitter doesn't need Techcrunch for anything now
I know that before, i'd rather not give away my passwords on the web.
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Lately I've also been thinking about all of the various apps requesting access to your Twitter account in order to function. Sure they use the api, but what's stopping some of these sites from being malicious with the user/pass information? Not much, far as I can tell.
Good point regarding the Viral TAF systems as well. A compromised Email addy is bad news.
Yes, the hacker had access to Twitter user accounts and took a screenshot of at least one of them. Twitter's blog claimed that only that one user account was compromised.
That is just a snippet from the PC World article which specifically doesn't mention any Twitter accounts being accessed, other than Twitter employees who had their Gmail compromised.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/168462/twitter_h...
The only place you will find claims to people outside twitter being compromised (this time around) are are sensationalist headlines which are scraped together from other sources.
Thing might appear in searches just due to keyword use, not because it actually happened.
The big issue here is that hackers get access through a google apps account.
Recently heard that most of the Twitter private documents were hacked by Hackers by using Google and brought to notice of Common man! Is this what we call Security? Twitter needs to grow up…But anyways, I love twitter!
In this case its no longer secured!!!
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You are right. I would also not give my passwords to any site for meetings friends. My privacy means more to me.
Of course Twitter needs to be more cautious than before. Even otherwise, I am quite wary of entering my passwords to Viral Tell A Friend kind of applications.
Some other sites such as Blogspot also ask for Gmail login, does that mean it can be misused? Security level should be raised so as to provide better business services to consumers.
I think you have your facts wrong on what data was actually seen
They didn't get access to celebrity accounts on this, but personal details such as direct email addresses possibly to agents etc.
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Never enter your passwords in any kind of third party applications !!!
Yeah! I prefer Twitter than Facebook!
It's more professional!!
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I personally don't like the idea of giving my email password. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I never use the “invite your friends” features. I can just as easily send a mass email myself without worrying about anyone else swipping my passwords.
I'm glad someone is sounding the alarm on this.
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Now a days twitter plays a major role.
I still can't understand all the hype about twitter
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@ frankcrccd If you have a website and your on twitter it does get you more traffic but you have to work at it etc. @ spanishinspain Twitter is there it just depends how you use it, I wouldn't say it played a major role. I would certainly avoid viral on twitter. For anyone on Twitter don't twit me MLM grrr
2 of my twitter accounts, i can not logged in, says wrong password. i think mine was already hacked!
i like twitter
I never give password not only to twitter but also to other sites also. It is a bad one I think. So these sites should avoid to ask the password from the users.
What cen we do about it. All we can do is not to hand over our passwords to them.
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It is slightly worrying the number of sites that you can feed into twitter using your twitter account details. If one of those was to experience a problem, then all your data could be at risk very quickly!
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This can affect the popularity of the twitters.
I am always suspicous about revealing my 'contact list' to any third party. As for twitter, it's important to take more precautions till we figgure out what is happening with the security holes discovered recently.
To my mind Twitter needs to be more cautious than before!!!!
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