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Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)
- pius 18y agoThat's pretty rough. Maybe someday people will just stop using services that ask you for your passwords to other services. It's ridiculous.
- axod 18y agoWhy would you use twitter for personal messages? It just doesn't make any sense :/
- getp 18y agoIf it's a personal message, it's the equivalent of an sms on the web.
- axod 18y agoSure. It just seems an odd choice. It's like using a blog to do revision control, by posting your source code as a new blog post each revision. Each to their own though...
- tptacek 18y agoBecause you don't always know the IM name of the person you want to message.
- danw 18y agoTwitter should implement OAuth or equiv for it's api. I'm fed up of handing out my password to third party twitter applications.
- pius 18y agoThe irony of this is that Blaine Cook is one of the leads on OAuth, IIRC.
- danw 18y ago"OAuth began in November 2006, during which Blaine Cook was developing the Twitter OpenID implementation" [0] Now that is most strange. Perhaps it's still in development? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth
- danw 18y agoIt appears as I wrote this, Blaine has left twitter